Porsche or Porscha ?
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porsha, the proper way
that's how they refer to it at the dealership
Arrgh so annoying, it's as bad as people who say Scooby for Subaru
But .. but ... scooby rocks
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Both, usually Porsch-a.
To those people that say 'It's how it's supposed to be said' do you pronounce Paris as par-ee or Munich as München? nope?
Sometimes... If you pronounce Porsche in two different ways then why wouldn't other people also pronounce certain foreign words correctly on occasion?
I'll use either pronounciation for Porsche but I don't tend to think about it all that much.
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You people saying Porsch-a - do you pronounce Mercedes as 'Mert-zedes', VW as 'fow-vee', Volkswagen as 'folks-vagen' and BMW as 'Bee em Vee' as well?
Couldn't have put it any better.
Didn't porsha originate from the American market?
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You people saying Porsch-a - do you pronounce Mercedes as 'Mert-zedes', VW as 'fow-vee', Volkswagen as 'folks-vagen' and BMW as 'Bee em Vee' as well?
I'm not sure how well that argument stands up really. Surely it is better to pronounce some things correctly rather than all things incorrectly just because you don't want to make the effort? It might be more consistent to either always make the effort or never make any effort but not everyond is always perfectly consistent in what they do.
It's not really an argument, it was more of a retort to the "that's how is said in Germany" argument. At the end of the day I don't care how people pronounce stuff but as you point out yourself people are completely inconsistent.
You people saying Porsch-a - do you pronounce Mercedes as 'Mert-zedes', VW as 'fow-vee', Volkswagen as 'folks-vagen' and BMW as 'Bee em Vee' as well?
I say Porsche/a and I do tend to say Volkswagen as 'folks-vagen' if I say it in full...so yes, and having spent so much time in the Netherlands (almost 1/3rd of 2008) I quite often think of BMW as 'Bey em Vey' to myself, although I don't say it like that, I thought it was really strange the first time that I heard it on a Dutch advert, but, after having heard them so many times now I have found it catching and often say it in my head for some odd reason. Not that I would admit that to the cloggies
...I pretend their language has no influence on me what so ever, of course it does, but it is a hard language, although easier than German in all but pronunciation I think, I find German words easier to pronounce correctly.
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