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Oh, just remembered when a young lad from the bike club asked me where I got my 'Sombrero' hat from. I was wearing my Sombrio cap at the time. that made me chuckle.
chorizo
ch as in church, i = ee, z = th
chor-ee-tho.
going back in time...Shwarble tyres
sorry, back to the chorizo.
it's not the th of tho I can't explain it's exactly the sounds that does not exist in english
.. like though Juan.
The Ringlé craze drove me batty, partly because my name has an accent and that never gets pronounced ether.
Lamborghini names spoken by english people drive me bonkers. Weird that a lot of it is Spanish.
Gallardo Gayardo
Murciélago moor-thee-EH-la-go... [url= http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AhT5HgMA.Y4brJWLJGwny8lEycsF/SIG=123sblm8m/**http%3A//l.yimg.com/a/i/edu/audio/dict_en_es/s/a264/a2643600.wav ]first moor bit slower than tend bit[/url]
Reventón pronounced with a soft b where the v is.
no it is not liek though it's different it's more a snakish ssssss thant the zzzzz
Honest I can clearly make a difference between the two of them
Anyone remember those 'Zzyzx' forks from around '98 time? Stupidly oversized tripple clamps??
juan - MemberThe french don't use umlarts in their language
You wouldn't bet about it would you?
No I wouldn't, but Go on Juan, prove me wrong and I'm talking standard textbook French, not some little hidden valley in the Alsace region where the locals still worship the sun gods and point at those strange flying ships.
Also my Moet quote above was from Jancis Robinson, WSET master of wine, long time.
Anyone remember those 'Zzyzx' forks from around '98 time? Stupidly oversized tripple clamps??
...like sticks?
shouldn't we pronounce all these foriegn words in English? Watch the voting on eurovision to see how johnny foreigner says 'united kingdom'. Likewise we don't attempt a french pronounciation of Paris, so why not Anglisise these names, its not our fault they are spelt incorectly for us to achieve the right pronounciation.
(Can you tell I pronounce most of the mentioned names incorrectly?)
SRAM is 'sram' as in 'pram' - it's just the initials of the founders, not a foreign word.
As for Bontrager - Keith reckons that the reason that his products are popular in Europe is because each nation assumes that he's one of them - so the French might pronounce it 'bontra-jer' or 'bontrajé' and the Germans 'Bon-traaagger' and the rest of us (including Keith) as just Bon Tray Ger. It's originally German though...
IGMC
What about Cava then?
Anyone heard Mavic pronounced 'May Vik' before ?!?!?!?
Also 'Cam Parge'
or: Bee a notchi
I know Deus should probably be pronounced 'day uss' but the rep from race face calls it 'deus' and you do sound like a nob if you say it like you have a latin dictionary shoved up your ass.
Moet isn't a French name, it's Dutch. Founded by Claude Moet...
And in reality you can't win anyway - go ahead and say it either with or without the 'T' (it is definitely Mo-et), and some smartarse thinks you're wrong. It's a good enough reason to avoid it and order something more interesting instead...
B.A.Nana - Member
No I wouldn't, but Go on Juan, prove me wrong and I'm talking standard textbook French, not some little hidden valley in the Alsace region where the locals still worship the sun gods and point at those strange flying ships.
Noël general enough? 🙂
My dad said he went to Ibiza in the 70s and they announced the gate for the "Eye-b-eye-za" flight. He went to correct find someone to correct them, They said "Of course we know, but if we said it the Spanish way, half the people would still be sat in departures when the plane took off"
Sometimes it's just about knowing your audience.
Lingerie.
What about Cava then?
Ka-ba
But the b is somewhere between b and v. A bit like other foreign language sounds that we don't do in English.
[i]My dad said he went to Ibiza in the 70s and they announced the gate for the "Eye-b-eye-za" flight. He went to correct find someone to correct them, They said "Of course we know, but if we said it the Spanish way, half the people would still be sat in departures when the plane took off"
Sometimes it's just about knowing your audience. [/i]
But if you announce it as 'Eye-b-eye-za', you'd still have half the people sitting in departures because they're not going to 'Eye-b-eye-za', they're going to 'Eye-beef-a' or 'Ib-itz-a'.
Still, as long as you can get 50000 Bensons on the flight, and patronise the waiters when you get there, they probably wouldn't worry where it was.