Sorry, can't do it, can't call it "Porscha"

[kiwiokie]

Originally Posted by Noah930

What aren't both pronunciations acceptable? "Porsh" or "Porsha," what's the big deal? (As long as you're not addressing an actual member of the Porsche family.) If someone calls a car a "Chevy," I know they're referring to a Chevrolet.

"Porsch-eh" <-- clever

Ah, don't forget to pronounce the "T" on the end of Chevrolet (Chevro - let rather than Chevro - lay) otherwise it will sound like you are making some pretentious French pronunciation of an American name.

[tobluforu]

Ok I'm going to be that guy, but what does this have to do do with being technical?

[NeunElf3.2]

..Although it looks like Por-sha, it's actually pronounced Throatwarblermangrove.

[Geronimo '74]

Originally Posted by tobluforu

Ok I'm going to be that guy, but what does this have to do do with being technical?

Oooh, tread carefully, I made the same remark about a post a few days ago.
Seems that somebody has to die and make you forum cop/thread police before you can make such remarks....
Oh yeah and I'm a douche nozzle too.... because they said so...

[twistoffat]

You guys are great entertainment. In Germany the "e" is actually pronounced more like an "eh" than an "ah" but that said most people here refer to the one pelicans like as a "neunelfer". The German alphabet is a bit screwed up. A German E is pronouned like an english A (ie able). The German "i" is pronounced like an english E etc etc. If you really want to laugh ask a German to pronounce " it was a very big vampire" you´ll be amazed at how many wery big wampires there are

[bdisco]

YouTube - Hey... It's Porsche!

[Joe Bob]

Porsche is a two syllable word....













































But then again, so is DickHead....

[schnellfahrer]

I love threads like these.

It´s not Porscha anyways; it´s pronounced Porsch-eh.

[wwest]

"..we have completely destroyed the english/american language..."

NOT..!!

It's those damn yankees that have muddled up the english language.

Go to London and learn the original engine language and then come back and decide which is more correct, south or north.

[Trackrash]

I was taught that the difference between Porsch and Porsche is...
if you own one it's Porscha.

When someone with a Spanish accent asks me if I have a Portch, I reply "yes, I have two, one on the front and one on the rear of my house.

BTW, I am not a snob, I swear it.

[Hawkeye's-911T]

Firstly, I can't believe I went through & read this thread & secondly found it, for the most part, quite entertaining. It is good to see a fair number of people on this board have a real sense of humour & don't take all of this too seriously. I still find it hard (almost unnatural) to say it as a two syllable word even when I am in the presence of other owners.

Cheers
JB

[midlife]

Wow, sensitive topic.

I don’t think it is disrespectful to pronounce someone’s name differently in a different country.

When my father moved from Germany, our family only uses the English pronunciation of our last name. I feel pretentious using the German pronunciation of my own name when I travel to Germany. When other Americans use the German pronunciation of my name, it feels like they are joking.

I have heard it pronounced Porsch by Germans.

It doesn’t bother me how people pronounce Porsche, just how uptight people get about it.

[hoyabear]

I also feel a bit like a d-bag when I say "Porsch-eh" around lay folk, so I usually side-step the issue alltogether by refering to my car as the "beast." You gotta know your audience...

[CCM911]

I brought a buddy to one of our PCA meetings after he bought his Porsche. At one point in the meeting, new members were asked to introduce themselves. So my buddy said "This is my first Porsche..." at which point our president stops him to say "It is pronounced Por-Sha".

I refuse to say "Por-Sha" to this day, but am more than happy to say "Douche Nozzle" ever time I see the ex president.

[nineball]

Originally Posted by myamoto1

So do you call Germany, "Germany" or "Deutschland?" I assume it's "Deutschland," since it's the proper German pronunciation

exactly. if we were living in germany ( ) then by all means harp on anyone who does not use two syllables in the pronunciation. we are, however, in america, and we pronounce things with an american accent and take.

here are a few more examples:

do you say mexico or meh-he-koe?

boston seltics or keltics?

did my friend go to noter dame college?

all of those have american pronunciations, just like the single syllable porsche. why should the porsche family get special treatment just because they built a car? people pronounce my name wrong all the time and no one but me cares.

how about the other side of the coin? we discovered, and named, aluminum yet people in the uk not only pronounce it wrong but they changed the spelling as well.

[rusnak]

Originally Posted by NeunElf3.2

..Although it looks like Por-sha, it's actually pronounced Throatwarblermangrove.

hahahaha....who know Will Ferrell was a member?

[dshepp806]

Maybe the confusion is what generated the term "P-car"...........

NeunElf3.2 : Funny as helllllllll1

Doyle

[AlfonsoR]

I love this thread, a bunch of comedians for sure.

There's a barbeque place about 30 miles west of Houston on I-10. The name is Hinze.

I used to pronounce it "Hinz" with a long i. Used to go there all the time and finally met someone that knew the owners. We go to talking about the name, he said it's pronounced hin-zee with a short i. Hmmm, i said, I think I'll just call it Hinz with a long i. He didn't think that was funny. I was just doing it to be a Canuk_Targa, though.

I think Porsche is a very beautiful name, and because it is a name, I will pronounce it proper, just like Hin-zee with a short i.

[R K T]

If the Ferrari discussion forum saw this thread, they would be cracking up for days. FIVE pages of debate on how to pronounce the name of our cars! Amazing that some will always insist on saying Porsh.
I don't know....is it Ferraree or Ferrareye or ........

[lindemans]

Written phonetically, I would indeed say Porr-shuh, with a rolling r; but then again you Americans don't let the r roll with the tip of your tongue in your language.

This is what German English would sound like by the way...

YouTube - German English

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