View Poll Results: PORSH or Por-SCHA
PORSH
46
14.79%
Por-SCHA
265
85.21%
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PORSH or Por-SCHA (pronunciation Poll)
12-16-2008, 02:14 AM
#76
Drifting
I just refer to mine as "my beater"
Actually fifty years ago when I was 9, my mother worked with a woman who always drove Porsches. She refered to them as a Porsch which was the way my mother refered to them as well. So this is where I learned my first pronunciation of the word and it has stuck with me thru 5 ownerships of the cars. I have a friend that works at the dealer and he says both. If he brings it up first it's Porscha but If I say Porsch a couple of times then he will say it too. Funny because he's worked at 2 different dealerships and has been a German car guy for decades.
How about BMW? I had a '67 and the dealer pronounced it Bay-Em-Vay.
Actually fifty years ago when I was 9, my mother worked with a woman who always drove Porsches. She refered to them as a Porsch which was the way my mother refered to them as well. So this is where I learned my first pronunciation of the word and it has stuck with me thru 5 ownerships of the cars. I have a friend that works at the dealer and he says both. If he brings it up first it's Porscha but If I say Porsch a couple of times then he will say it too. Funny because he's worked at 2 different dealerships and has been a German car guy for decades.
How about BMW? I had a '67 and the dealer pronounced it Bay-Em-Vay.
12-17-2008, 09:57 PM
#78
Parts Specialist
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Thread Starter
Well Maci....I am surprised. Seems you are NOT alone in your thinking SO I will allow you the option on how you say it. I still feel some good reasons were presented and a more clear pronumciation was achieved with the "Poor Shed" Minus the D (aka the soft "eh" on the end) and I still stand firm in my belief that it is a 2 syllible word
That said... What did you come away with.
This was fun, and surprising for me.
That said... What did you come away with.
This was fun, and surprising for me.
