Pronunciation of manufacturers' names

[montesquieu]

Austria... Surely it has to be Mozart!

Marco.

Or Schubert!

http://www.wienmuseum.at/en/location...burtshaus.html

BTW Russell is right when it comes to the Japanese pronunciation of Aiwa. It's three syllables. I just checked with the wife, who while not Japanese speaks and reads it rather well.

Having said that I can never resist a giggle at the way Americans pronounce 'Hyundai'. Something like Hahn-dee. Not a dipthong in sight.

[jandl100]

Austria... Surely it has to be Mozart!

Marco.

No way - it's the alpine connection I mentioned - listen to the opening horn calls in Bruckner 4 and then imagine them echoing through the Austrian mountains.
It sends shivers down my spine just thinking about it.

[alphaGT]

Or Schubert!

http://www.wienmuseum.at/en/location...burtshaus.html

BTW Russell is right when it comes to the Japanese pronunciation of Aiwa. It's three syllables. I just checked with the wife, who while not Japanese speaks and reads it rather well.

Having said that I can never resist a giggle at the way Americans pronounce 'Hyundai'. Something like Hahn-dee. Not a dipthong in sight.

Thank you for the backup on Aiwa, To me it makes sense, and it is how it’s spelled.

And you’re right about average American pronunciations of any foreign word. Most Americans are lucky if they read on a 6 grade level. Sure there are plenty of well educated, intelligent people to be found, but for every one of those you find 5 others who are not. Public schools are failing our youth, I won’t get into that here. But you are right, I’ve heard Hyundai pronounced so many ways, I just go with the TV commercials, hopefully they are saying it right?


Russell

[Macca]

Or Schubert!

http://www.wienmuseum.at/en/location...burtshaus.html

BTW Russell is right when it comes to the Japanese pronunciation of Aiwa. It's three syllables. I just checked with the wife, who while not Japanese speaks and reads it rather well.

Having said that I can never resist a giggle at the way Americans pronounce 'Hyundai'. Something like Hahn-dee. Not a dipthong in sight.

I hear them say it as 'Hun-day'. I like that so I started pronouncing it that way too. It's amazing how many people immediately jump in to correct you. Then you ask them what they think of them and they say 'They're shit.' So why do you care how it's pronounced then? Muppets.

Then you've got Dacia which is supposed to be 'Dach-ee-arr'. Whatever mate, you're in England now so it's fucking Day-see-ah. Live with it.

[walpurgis]

I had a Hyundai (hyoon-dye). Damn well made car and the only one I've owned that never gave me backache on a long run. Plenty quick enough too.

[Marco]

Nice wee car that, Geoff. Pity your tastes have deteriorated somewhat since then and gone all boring!

Marco.

[walpurgis]

Needs must mate!

[Beobloke]

Having said that I can never resist a giggle at the way Americans pronounce 'Hyundai'. Something like Hahn-dee. Not a dipthong in sight.

More like "Hoon-day", which never fails to irritate me when I'm over there. Not nearly as much as the way they somehow manage to turn "Nissan" into "Neee-sahrn", though!

On, and for anyone who was interested, O'hEocha is actually pronounced "oh-haughey" - a bit like "oh-hockey" but with the 'ck' in the middle softened.

[Barry]

'none English......' Is that no English ........ or non-English......?

Ai wa is a two syllable word, not three, Justin.

They may be capitalised, but if they were to be used as initials, they would have full stops (your periods) after each initial. I've NEVER heard of KEF and NAD to be called anything other than their phonetic pronunciation suggests. Many companies use capitals, or they could use initial capital plus lower case; this really doesn't reflect on their pronunciation at all.

What about SME?

[YNWaN]

Americans pronounce soldering as soddering- this seems to be true irrespective of where in the country they come from.