Jenner

To add more to the debate

Would it make sense that the way the name is pronouced in the Porsche ads run on TV for their cars in America would be the correct way?
Plenty of ads on youtube, here are two for example.
993 Patrick Stewart:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3fc425gJQQ

Porsche said serveral times in this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdNtkVZoM5A&NR

Irishdriver

POSH is port out starbord home which was the better side of the ship for the British going to India. Since then it has always meant the rich guys.

Zed Homme

But even with the cities in CA there is confusion. San Jose is pronounced correctly, but San Pedro is not. This isnt just limited to CA, another notable mispronounciation is the SC town of Beaufort (pronounced like beautiful). Detroit has a hard T at the end just like all the Saints, and in Saint Louis one vocalizes the S. I think the best is to listen how the locals say it and follow suit. However, there dont seem to be any guidelines.

Irishdriver

the one I like is the motor museum in the south of England.

the name is Beaulieu which they pronounce Bewley....I've never found any reason why it has a french name (other than the original Barons Montagu of Beaulieu 1885) and why it is pronounced in such a funny way.

Cannoli

Very good point. I think we could all agree that regardless the origin of the word/name, people around the world will have their own way of pronouncing the word/name.

JFScheck

I even have a T-Shirt that say's it all...

PORSCHE - It's a two syllable word...

black911

That's awesome. Yea I said it porsh one time and got corrected so now I only say it Porsche, the proper way. I mean, it's a registered genius' last name, not a brand name and not a word, so there's only really one correct way to say it...

soltino

"so there's only really one correct way to say it..."

Right, and i'm the only one who says it correctly.

tino

Max Power

here you go:

a German, pronouncing various brand names and such...

http://german.about.com/library/media/sound/words_a.mp3

Brand names as they sound in German:
Adidas, Bayer, Braun, Porsche, Deutsche Bank, Lufthansa, Volkswagen

People and things:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Dr. Seuss, Loess, Neanderthal, Gerhard Schröder, Steffi Graf, Sigmund Freud, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Henry Kissinger, Jörg Haider

theykallmekem

i saw porsch because i do not know better, and like many Americans, you say potatoe i say potata lol. but it is really porscha

soltino

For the last time:

Poor + shed and drop the d.

tino