Car Pronunciation?

I have a Porsche and I say por-sh, not the proper por-shuh.

IIRC Modena is pronounced Mode-nuh.

 

I use the correct pronunciation of Porsche. My father-in-law lived in Germany for a couple years and he's owned a bunch.

 

No offense, but I cringe every time someone from the UK or US tries to say "Porsche". Even if they don't say "Porsh" (*shiver*), there are usually two things wrong:

1) The "e" in "Porsche" is not an "a". You don't say "Por-shaaaaaaaaaaaaaah". It's an "e" like the second e in "eloquent" (... if "eloquent" is pronounced like I think it's supposed to be ). Alternatively, try to say "Por-shay" without the "y"

2) The accentuation. It's POR-sche, not por-SCHE.


(Hope you're sitting in front of your computer now trying to correctly pronounce "Porsche" )

 

Florian, settle a bet (disagreement) for me. I have a friend (American) who speaks German and lived in Frankfurt for a few years. He said that Porsch vs. Porsch-a vs. whatnot is really a regional dialect issue, not a German language "rule". Is that true? Sounds plausible but I've never heard it anywhere else.

 

Damn it, I was. I tend to slip out both Porch & Por-SHA.

 

No. The correct pronounciation is the one explained above, and even in the huge differences between the German dialects, it nearly stays the same. Porsh or Por-SHAH is simply ... wrong

 

Tomato Tomato

 

okay, thanks!

 

Modena is pronounced moe-deh-nah. That one is a lot like how it would be pronounced in Spanish, but Italian words with gi ge ghi ghe ci ce chi or che always throw me for a loop, because they are completely against what we are taught.

Murcielago, for example, is pronounced moor-chi-el-ah-go. While Ciao is pronounced chow. Those Italians had it all backwards.

 

It is a spanish word meaning bat.
Moor - as in poor
thee - with an exaggerated th
e - gets the accent
lago

Not a native spanish speaker though and a bit hard to transliterate.

 

me too.
noone in germany says porsh. terrible...

 

reminds me of a blonde joke.

long introduction bla bla bla.
"...well, you could paint the porch."
she comes back inside after half an hour "ready!"
"that was quick!"
"wasn't that much work...oh by the way it's not a porsh, it's a ferrari"

...it is funnier when you haven't just been talking about porsches....

 

How do you pronounce Koenigsegg? According to this website (http://www.genealogymagazine.com/surnames2.html ) Koenig = king. So is it King-segg?

 

Why would you pronounce the translated word? I'm not too sure about the details of the Swedish pronounciation, but you won't go wrong with saying "Konigsegg".

 

In swedish king'segg would be Kungsägg.
Koenigsegg is a combination of the german König or Koenig with the english "egg".
But I doubt it was intended like that, no idea how to pronounce it.

 

I doubt that there was any intention at all, as it's the last name of the company's founder

 

How about the new 599 convertible thing; SA Aperta

 

[ˈkøːnɪɡsɛɡ]

 

The correct way to pronounce Modena is mod'na

"mod" as in moderator

 

Another one is Gallardo apparently pronounced Gay-r-dough?

 

Good news for owners: not Gay.
Rather: Guy-are-dough
rolling r though

 

I like this game!
If you just allow me to brag. I speak Dutch, English, German, Swedish and Spanish fluently, my strong point being pronunciation. Use all of them practically every day although I am not a linguist.
Also sort of know how to pronounce French, Italian and Bulgarian.
End of brag.