How do you pronounce...?

[Feedingthebirds1]

I just fell down an internet rabbit hole and found this - how to pronounce various brand names. I like to think I get things right, but there were a few which caught me out. And sometimes we have 'how do you pronounce...?' threads.

How would you do?

www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/brand-names-many-people-dont-know-how-to-say-correctly/ss-AAQpMPG?ocid=msedgntp#image=1

Nootella's fine but it's definitely say-ga not see-ga as they say, I used to work for them.

Their pronunciation of Lidl is wrong. In German it's Lee-dl.

Is meme pronounced meem or mehmay?

@80Dodgeballs - meem

You're probably pronouncing it:

Coin-trow?
Hub-lot?
Loo-bow-tin?
Dol-say?
Del-mont?
Loo-is Voo-ton?
Ver-sach-say?
Tag Hew-air?
Ev-vee-arn?
Crispee Crem?
Tiss-sot?

Since when?!

@TaraLewis

Nootella's fine but it's definitely say-ga not see-ga as they say, I used to work for them.

Was just going to ask why, when you turn a Sega console on, does it sing 'say-ga' if it's supposed to be see-ga?

@80Dodgeballs

Is meme pronounced meem or mehmay?

Thank you, I thought I was the only one who ever thoght it was me-may!

I'm not sure I'd ever pronounce uni qlo like the article suggests. Changing the lo to ro just sounds like your intentionally trying to be racist!

Not on your list but I've been pronouncing blink182 wrong my entire teenage years. Only found out the right way age 31.

@ColinTheKoala

Lidl. I always say Leedel as the Germans would, but even Lidl themselves say Liddle in the UK ;)

Exactly - "the middle of Leedel" doesn't have the same ring!

Or should that be the "meedel of Leedel"?

@KhaleesiOfChaos

@whosaidtha

Not on your list but I've been pronouncing blink182 wrong my entire teenage years. Only found out the right way age 31.

Umm what? I’d have thought there was only one way to pronounce this - unless the “blink” is pronounced weirdly? I feel like I’m about to find out I’ve been saying it wrong forever..

@SickAndTiredAgain I thought it was blink one eight two. But it's blink one eighty two

@whosaidtha ohhh I thought you were going to say the blink should be pronounced bleeenk or something I’m not sure whether I say eight or eighty, this is like when someone asks how I say scone and I can never remember what I would naturally say!
My mum called them blink one hundred and eighty two, but I think that was deliberate.

I always thought JYSK was JISK. But it isn't. It's Jay Why Ess Kay.

If you are spending money with them I doubt most companies give a fuck how you pronounce their name.

If it's a person then I think it should be said in the way the person wants.

There was a kid at school whose name was pronounced 'Why vone ee'.

It was spelt Yvonne

@Angel2702

I disagree with Sega, the advert growing up was “do me a favour, plug me into a Say-ga” not see-ga.

That's true. And when it started up a voice would say 'say-gaa!'

@Badabingbadabum - I know, right?!

I cba to go through them all but I usually pronounce products or brand names in the same way as they say on the adverts.

@80Dodgeballs

Is meme pronounced meem or mehmay?

It's pronounced to rhyme with 'cream'.

www.etymonline.com/word/MEME

I worked with someone who pronounced Peugeot as poogeeott and refused to accept it was purr-zho (”it ends in a t. You say the t”)

[quote whosaidtha]@SickAndTiredAgain I thought it was blink one eight two. But it's blink one eighty two [/quote]
I think one eight two is fine as well though.

It's the more natural way to say it in the UK. In theUS they would generally say one eighty two for a number like that.

I spend a lot of time in the US and the only one I thought was of any relevance on this list was Krispy Creme.

In England, I hear this as crispy crem all the time. It's not, it's just "crispy cream" but spelt a stupid way.

The rest of the list, I've never come across anyone who says the "you're probably saying" version.

Wasn't there a football commentator who created the ultimate faux pas by saying faux pas as "Fax Paz"

@IloveJudgeJudy

I read that and disagree on the pronunciation of some of them. Also, and this is a beef of mine. How do you pronounce Paris? I say Paris, but according to the rules of that website I should be saying Paree. Don't get me started on the English pronunciation of Porsche! I speak German but when I'm speaking English I say Porsh. No uh at the end.

Rant over

Ah, english pronunciations of german words...

And Grand Pricks