[porschecoyote]

Recently got home from Europe vacation. Best part of the trip was day at Porsche museum. Its an amazing place and would recommend it for any and all Porsche lovers bucket list. F.Y.I its not open on Monday.

While there I noticed something very interesting.

As an American, purist or not, it is expected we call the little car made in Stuttgart a Porsche. However for some odd reason we insist on pronouncing it porsch--- A


In fact some of us go blue in the face making this small correction.

What I noticed while at the Porsche museum, listening to my automated tour, talking to the factory workers and employees, is that no one ever called a Porsche a Porsch----A. It seemed to me that most all the time they pronounce it just as it is spelled (Porsche with a silent E). If anything ,and usually while referring to the Dr and the people that are in his family, they would add a bit of exaggeration to the O pronouncing it as pOrsch .

In fact, I never once heard a German, Austrian, or French call it anything but a Porsche. No A sound at all. Some of the Swiss (speaking Swiss German) will add an E sound to the end, as in porschE.

So all you blue in the face. My question to you is if the people building the car, the recorded tour the factory made, the museum guides, the company employees and the rest of Europe call the car made in Stuttgart a Porsche why must the new world call it a Porsch---A??????