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View Poll Results: Porsch or Porscha, how do you pronounce it....
I like not sounding like an idiot and pronouncing things correctly so I call it Porsch-uh. However, I don't act like a **** and correct people when they pronounce it wrong; I just figure they catch on when I pronounce it. Though being so young I generally avoid discussing what I drive unless I really have to.
A woman hires a guy to paint her garage door a light shade of pink. She says, "When you are done with the door, could you please paint the porch the same color?"
"No problem, ma'am.", he said.
A few hours later, the painter knocked on her door to collect his money.
"The garage door is finished, and I painted your car...but I don't think it is a Porch, I think it is a Ferrari."
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This has to be a true story because I found it on the internets.
Dave - once again kudo's to your utmost brilliance, diligence to the facts and being an all around enigma. Briggs & Stratton and may the force be with you. I wouldn't have believed the above story if it hadn't come directly from you. Where is this 'internets' by the way? Your mystique resources have me in a state of awe (ah?)
I think it's quite entertaining that it is our state-side cousins that are so hell-bent on pronouncing this one word/name correctly. They so often manage to destroy other parts of the English language, and names, without a thought or care.
I am still a little confused, though, as recent trip to Germany to visit Festo, a large pneumatics supplier to Porsche, based in Esslingen, close to the Porsche factory, and the Germans I spoke to pronounced the name with an almost negligible emphasis on the -uh at the end. To me, it sounded like Porsch. If anything the sound after the h was more of an upwards inflection in the “sh” sound than a distinct and separate letter
Besides all of that, it is difficult enough at the best of times driving round in a Porsche in Manchester. Most people think you are wanker before you even open your mouth. Pronouncing a name in a different manner to how 99.99% of the population think is pronounced just usually goes some way to reinforcing that stereotype, I find…….
Jack
P.S. Isn’t Porsche a two-syllable word no matter which way you pronounce it, or am I worse at English Language than they told me at school?
I think it's quite entertaining that it is our state-side cousins that are so hell
Besides all of that, it is difficult enough at the best of times driving round in a Porsche in Manchester.
Totally concur, and for Manchester read just about any UK town or City with the possible exception of the Square Mile in London. And on a separate but not unrelated note, if any of or friends across the pond had actually bothered to read my original post, its said “.... so I just wondered how most of us Brits refer to it.” “Doh!” (to quote my favourite American)
The vehicle and
company were named for its
founder, Dr. Ferdinand Porsche.
It’s also the reason that the brand
is properly pronounced “Porsh-a”
instead of the commonly
mispronounced “Porsh.”
well I used to say porsch, untill I started learning german 2 years ago, then I figured out that I have to pronounce the 'e' at the end. So Its PorschE now for me
I can't believe I am reading this. We all know what everyone is talking about. And honestly the family really doesn't car as long as the cars are selling.
I say Porsch all the time and my wife, who lived in Germany for a while says I'm and idiot because in German its pronounced Porsch-sha. Still feel like a bit of a **** saying Porsch-sha though. It seems pretentious to me. Just my opinion, I'm not calling anyone a ****, just saying I feel like one when I do it.
Well, Us smart arse brits are usually wrong anyway....how do you say Lancia
I'd wager Lan-s-i-a when it should be pronounced Lan-cha (or so my mum tells me and she only been Italian for 80 years) I could also say Mitsubushi rather than Mitsubishi.....and how the the hell you guys get Jag ware out of JagUar I'll never know...come on jack and co need backup on this
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