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How do you pronounce Porsche?
02-12-2008 | 03:39 PM
#181
Burning Brakes
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From: 1 hour from Lime Rock Park
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
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
02-12-2008 | 04:44 PM
#183
Intermediate
Joined: Oct 2007
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However, we (us Yanks) are pretty consistent, though there are exceptions, that we pronounce non-English words correctly. Case in point, here in California, we have many cities with Spanish names (go figure) - San Jose, we pronounce the "J" as one would in Spanish, i.e. "Ho". We are pretty damn consistent with Latin-based languages (Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese) pronunciations, so why not with German?
02-13-2008 | 01:15 PM
#184
Burning Brakes
Joined: Jun 2001
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From: Germany
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.
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.
02-13-2008 | 01:36 PM
#185
Instructor
Joined: Aug 2004
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From: California
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.
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.
02-24-2008 | 07:18 PM
#187
2nd Gear
Joined: Feb 2008
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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...
03-24-2008 | 07:02 PM
#189
Racer
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From: Media, PA
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
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
04-24-2008 | 07:37 PM
#191
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