They don't know how to pronounce their own brand name...

[Robstersgirl]

Pantene - It's PAN-TEN surely? Not PAN-TEEN as per this glam old ad.
AIBU?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=hz8ul-gmLyA

L'Occitane is definitely loxitan.

My friend looked at me like the other day when I said that, but I'm the one who knows French, not her.

Glad this thread came up.

My eldest DC insists Nutella should be pronounced 'new-tella' and does so. Often. In my house.

Is he correct?

No he's not. It's got nuts in so I think the clue is probably there....

Yes Coco David Bowie's son is called Zowie pronounced Zoe, but is now known as Joe! See also Rolan Bolan.

I've tried the nuts line. He won't bloody have it.

He's 18. He knows everything.

Nutella gets my goat. Why something made of nuts is meant to be nootella it'll never know.

Lidl is definitely lid-l. Like the advert says, Lidl surprises and it's meant to sound like little

Also Maybelline is definitely May-beh-LEAN.

DD's middle name is Maybellene after the song. Clarifies the pronunciation.

Yes I think it even says on their label ( obviously incorrectly) that it should be New-tella

What do they know?

It's because the Italian U is slightly longer than the British English one and because they only have the U sound that we have in "book". If you listen carefully to Italians saying it, they aren't saying "Newtella" they are saying Nootella (to rhyme with book) I think the confusion is twofold: no "U" sound in Italian corresponding to the "U" sound southern British speakers would have in "sun" together with the fact that their only "U" sound is longer (ever so slightly, and almost imperceptibly) than ours.

It's Pant-ene in the US and Australia. I've always found the UK Pan-ten pronunciation annoying.

Does it toblerone?

Bollocks. It's so irritating.

What about Peugeot? Bugbear of an English person in Ireland. Pyoojo or purjo or neither?

The word 'occitan' refers to the language and natives of Languedoc, so 'L'occitane' means 'the female native of Languedoc' and is pronounced the French way, 'locc-see-tan' with no stress on any syllable.

Peugeot

Per-jo, but with a soft j, so more of a zh sound.

i was joking about Cilit Bang

It just cheers up cleaning the bathroom. Sometimes it's Italian: "DH, put Cilita Banga on the shopping list"!

But Silly Bong is my favourite.

In the Conyo house Lidl is Fiddle, and Aldi is Baldy.

David Bowie's son is called Duncan Jones now. His birth name was Zowie, then he changed it to Joe Jones at school, but now he is Duncan.

I've always assumed Primark is a contraction of Price and Market so pronounce it as Pri as in Price. As does everyone else I've ever heard refer to it.

Does Pantene have an accent on it in Australia?
No, it doesn't - because they don't really do French here, as I said, so most people wouldn't know what the accent was, which makes it redundant.

It's not really the UK pronunciation of "Pan-ten", though, is it. It's actually the French pronunciation. We just follow it because we know that's what it is.

Nutella - Italian pronunciation still wouldn't be "New-tella" - have to agree, it's more like Southerners in the UK say book (not people who actually say boo-k).

Imagine a Yorkshireman saying nut - that's where it should be.

Originally from Northern Ireland- everyone there calls it 'Pre- mark'

The first Primark UK store was opened in Belfast where it has always been Preemark, you can call it Pri mark but you'll always be wrong . Strangely my 11 year old was talking about Pan teen shampoo at the weekend, must be how the kids are saying it these days!

And I retract my comment re. UK/French pronunciation of Pantene because obviously the UK pronounce the first syllable differently from the French. I was focusing only on the second syllable when I wrote that.

Thumbwitch - he is a bloody Yorkshireman

Ralph Lauren was always LoREN growing up - confidences were shattered when he was on Friends as it was 100% just pronounced as Lauren!

I was dumbfounded at the chicco advert the other day. Luckily I haven't had much opportunity to say recently so haven't been making a fool of myself

Well tell him he's pronouncing nuts wrong then! Silly lad.
(my Dad's a Yorkshireman as well, never heard him pronounce "nut" as "newt" so I think I'm on safe ground here!)