Ok, but is it then;
REN-o as it is frequently pronounced in the UK
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re-NO as it is often pronounced in the US ?
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Someone could have told me. I've been calling it Per ge ot all these years!
The Americans. Oh where to start.
Nissan becomes Neeeson
Actually, that's it. I can't remember the other one.
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Yes, yes, yes. We all know the correct pronunciation. But there was a time when the ignorant pronunciation was widely used in the UK, if I am not mistaken. My question was ... (see above)
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When my friend's Dad got a Laguna, I did call it a Ren alt until they corrected me. I was only 6 though.
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No I wasn't - I was in year 6 which would have made me 10.
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Always been Ren-o for as long as I can remember and that's, as the song says, a long, long time..:-)
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Always been Ren-o for as long as I can remember and that's, as the song says, a long, long time..:-)
I see. Clearly I grew up in ignorant circles!
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Ren-o for me too, since working at a dealers in the 60s.
Back when I used to listen to Essex police, one of their ops could never get the hang of 'purr-jo' - it was always 'pew-jot'.
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Is it "Per-jo" though?. A friend's father was a Peugeot specialist and spoke French as his first language and I always heard him pronounce it "Pew-jo".
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"Yes, yes, yes. We all know the correct pronunciation ...!"
Without wishing to be pedantic, I believe that you will find that it should actually be pronounced "the-no", with "the" as in the demonstrative adjective "the", and rolling the "r" sound), followed by a very short "no".
Next thing you know, we'll all be saying "See-trow-n", as the French do, instead of "Sit-row-n" - and what a good job they are no longer making Delages, Delahayes, Facel Vegas or Panhards!
I doubt if the French care how we pronounce the names of their cars - as long as we keep buying them! - so it's all a bit like expecting Americans to say "Ca-dee-ack" since that is just as much a French word as Renault, Citroen, Peugeot etc
Jack (aka Jacques)
PS Incidentally, I wonder how many of you say "Pa-ree" rather than "Paris" and laugh at Americans saying "Jag-war", which is more or less exactly how our French friends pronounce the word too!
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Next thing you know, we'll all be saying "See-trow-n", as the French do, instead of "Sit-row-n" - and what a good job they are no longer making Delages, Delahayes, Facel Vegas or Panhards!
That's a problem I have, because I'm still not sure whether I should be saying that I have a Citroen Berlingo "Mull-tea-space" or whether I should say "Mool-tea-spas". Analogy with the Renault Espace suggests the latter, but the former seems more natural.
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Nee-sonn and Mitsubeeshi were the two that stood out to me. And Jagwar. And they say Chevrolet instead of Daewoo.
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And, going non-motoring (as I tend to do), who came up with 'tiskerlee' for the Tiscali adverts?
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Phew! Glad i've got a Ford.
Only the wife's Ren-no Clee-o to worry about.
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I think you'll find it's a Cly-O.
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Phew! Glad i've got a Ford
That's pronounced "Froud" by the way ;-)
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Damn you and your clear cut car name PU!!!
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Bayerische Motoren Werke ??
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Hope to take the Cow-ar-sarky for a run tomorrow.
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A jaguar is a "Hag-whar" BTW. Its a Spanish word.
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Exactly - Bayerishk Moteren Work ;-)
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>>who came up with 'tiskerlee' for the Tiscali adverts?>>
It may well be correct (it's an Italian based company with HQ in Cagliari) but I've always pronounced it Tis-car-lee...:-)
If I remember correctly, Italian nouns ending in "i" represent the plural, but I don't know if it's so named because Tiscali is now based in 14 different countries in Europe.
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