Poorsha for me....with alot of emphasis on POOR when they break down.

 

 

many people say porsh ah as they say porsh as they say porsh uh

do u understand ingles

 

My kids always call our cars Porsche's...
On their first trip to the states they asked Grandma how she liked her Ply - mouth

 

This inspires to pipe in about Brett Favre. For some reason a major pet peeve for me. Clearly this guy's name is not supposed to be pronounced Farv, but it is. Apparently butchered long ago by his own family in Missippi.

On a slightly different topic. (Since it is not a surname) Did you ever hear George W Busch pronounce the word nuclear? The President of the United States says nuk-you-ler. Jimmy Carter pronounced it the same way. I can't fathom how their advisors and speech coaches don't correct them.

 

Would you have believed that this topic has evoked more discussion than Roe v Wade?

......Then there's Shakespeare...."What's in a name"?

 

Don't forget that it's pronounced "Roof" not "Ruffffff"

 

Who parks their car on the front Porch?

 

Down here Hyundai is marketed by the factory as Hi - oon - day. The "oon" as in 'look' NOT as in 'moon'.

It all depends on who the factoy is marketing to.

 

I believe thw correct way is poor shed, minus the d.


tino

 

And I believe the wheel "Fuch" is pronounced "****" as in "you"



-Z-man.

 

If I pronounce the word Porsch-a (or -uh) I sound like a jackass. So I call it my Porshe. Interestingly, many of my fellow countrymen (UK) do the same.

An easier option used to be 'nine-eleven' but that got all messed up on 9/11.

So, ultimately, it's Al-Quaeda's fault!

Cheers,

Paul.

 

Porsh-uh

 

But then again, do we pronounce Paris "Paris" or "Paree"

 

If I put my family name to a product which sold thousands all round the world for over 40 years I would expect different ways of pronouncing it to appear, after all that is one of the ways language evolves..its human nature to try to make the word seem more familiar.