Stefan Richter

There is no "s" sound in Richter, trust me. The German "ch" sound is hard to describe. More like a soft version of a cat hiss.

This thread is silly

Stefan (Richter)

Stefan Richter

On second thought, this thread reminds me of a Saturday Night skit, where the newsanchor attempted to pronounce all foreign words in proper accent (best Spanish version of Puerto Rico, Russian of Moscow, German, ok Austrian of Wien). Sounded ridiculous.

My kids call my car "Sally", as in the "holy porsh" from the Disney movie Cars. I avoid saying Porsche for all the above reasons, and call the car a 911.

Stefan

yell03

Thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt.

I had a great day driving in my Porsche.

I saw a guy behind me taking pics of the back end of the car on his cell phone at a light.

Being a cool Porsche owner, I pressed the button and raised the Rear spoiler for him and then lowered it.
He responded with a Big Thumbs Up.

Then, I was out buying a Special Tire Plug Kit for all three of my cars, especially for the Porsche and I ended up talking to a bunch of guys about the car, they were doing construction at the stoor next to the one I was at.

No matter how you say it, if you are a cool Porsche, people know it.

I love my Porsh

Howard

Zookie

P-CAR yoooooo

and if its a Volkswagen with a Porsche Engine, its VORSCHE!!!

and if you dont like Porsche's "Hey looks its a really expensive Volkswagen"

and i think its PORSCHA!!

and if your dumb "PORCHHE!!"

gregorycarl

My father-in-law calls it:
"One of those fancy race cars"

arr0gant

Especially if they KNOW it's the wrong way. Don't you think? I mean, to me it's always been Porsh. I like the way it sounds and that's that!

Tippy

Learn something everyday.......

hwk72

You're right, in most places there's no "s" in Richter, but have you ever been in Dresden, Leipzig or Chemnitz? In Saxony people say "Rischter" and as there's one great Porsche factory in Leipzig, local people also call it: Poorschä.

Stefan Richter

Not to hijack this thread, but i was born in Munich, brought up to believe that if it's not in Bavaria, it's not relevant So, if some northerner wishes to mispronounce my name ... . Hmmmm, if someone mispronounces my name, and I can't hear it, has that person really said anything?

Happy Friday

Stefan (don't try to pronounce that either)

Potomac-Greg

We're introspective, politically correct, self-critical Americans, and we're always wrong!

My last name, in my forefather's land, would be pronounced Chi-rillo (begins with "Ci"). But those letters are pronounced "Si-rillo" in English. I'll answer to the Italian pronunciation, and find it fun; but I would never insist on it, nor do I take offense to an American pronunciation.

So, could it be said that taking offense to the US pronunciation of Porsche is evidence of the very snobbery that makes it so hard for some of us to say it in the German pronunciation?

Tippy

Yea, how do you get Steven out of Stephan?

Or, kernel out of Colonel?

Cohm out of comb.........stupid English, made to be read and written by the Aristocrats only.....there is where the issue lies.....

vyper340

For those of you who know German... it is prounounced more like Poor-shza

steve germany

Here in Germany I don't hear too many mispronounciations of "POOR SHA" except by my American Co-workers. I've made sure that upon indocternation the correct pronunciation is part of the things they learn to protect us from the ignorant American syndrome.

deckman

My smartass friends say Porsheee

AndyK

I think that in the US. Many Americans can't roll Porsh-eh off their tongues without sounding like a kid in first year German/French/Spanish simply because many of us only speak English. We are not used to pronouncing foreign names and words correctly! In Europe, almost everyone is bi-lingual, and are able to correctly pronounce foreign words!

In a nutshell, it's pronounced Porsh-eh, with a tiny "eh" forming the second syllable. Saying "Poorsh" is wrong.

For the record, I say Porsh-eh / Owdie!