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

[toomuchtooold]

I'm disappointed about the Cillit Bang! It sounded plausible. My kids are in German kindergarten and I cringe every time I hear saying an English word. It makes me wonder how stupid I sound in German...

[ScrambledSmegs]

Surely if you're making an attempt to say Nutella in the way Italians do, it would be Noo-tella, not new-tella?

Zara is nearly impossible for me to say correctly, so I'll just stick with phonetic English.

[wingingitmostdays]

When we had family over from
Canada, their hire car was supposedly a per-got! It still makes us laugh 4 years later

[fairweathercyclist]

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

The British advert is just playing on the language ignorance of the British. I simply can't bring myself to pronounce it as Liddl. In German, it is Leedl.

However, I do pronounce Braun the English way but that's because I knew it as a brand before I learnt German.

And latte is not lartay. I think I dislike that more than anything.

As for L'occitane, I guess it depends if you pronounce it the French way or the Ocitan way (and if they are in fact different, my knowledge of French dialects isn't sophisticated enough to know).

I found this article which is quite interesting: www.sundaypost.com/inside-the-sunday-edition/how-do-you-pronounce-ikea-adidas-or-lidl-our-guide-to-getting-the-names-right/ I didn't even know that people pronounced Nutella anything other than Newtella or Nootella!

[fairweathercyclist]

Nestle definitely used to pronounce their name Nessles

Yes they did. I remember that too.

[CocoLoco87]

Ellesse....

I say el-ess. DH says el-ees, some people say el-essay

Who is correct?!

[FrenchLavender]

It's certainly not el-ees, why on earth would he say it like that?

If it were French it would have to have an accent on the final e to be El-essey wouldn't it?

Not idea if it's French or not but it sounds it.

[MerryMarigold]

winging it, ds1 used to call it a pew-got when he was little and it has stuck for our family!!

[IAmNotAUserNumber]

There's that other popular car, the Ree-Nolt.

[MerryMarigold]

Nessles Milky Bar! Just watched a load of old ads and they did say Nesslay to start with, but if you listen to the ad at 2.30 and the one before, it's definitely Nessles. The one with the girl in red is the one I remember really well.

[IAmNotAUserNumber]

Where do people stand on broccoli? For me it's brock oh lee but MIL calls it brock oh lie.

[FrenchLavender]

I couldn't stand by and listen to someone say Brocc-o-lie without having to stove their head in with a spade.

[SherlockPotter]

I pronounce Primark as 'Pry-Mark'

[Awwlookatmybabyspider]

Man get out, anyone

[PageNowFoundFileUnderSpartacus]

Nestle definitely used to pronounce their name Nessles

I'm old enough to remember the Milky Bar adverts where the last line of the jingle was "Nessles Milky Bar".

IAmNot its brock-o-lee, of course. People who say -lie will be second against the wall come the revolution, after people who leave their fog light on when it isn't foggy.

[SherlockPotter]

I'm another one who thought Chicco was Cheek-o and not Keek-o. I knew CEX was pronounced as sex though.

[Oldraver]

Many years ago, my Mum moved to a small village is Derbyshire..the main shopping road int he next town was Grosvenor Road which the locals pronounced 'Groz-vee-na'. It took her a while to realise what they meant (and was looking for Grozveena Road/Street for ages) but she got laughed at when she pronounced it the normal way

[MerryMarigold]

Brocc-o-lie. Oh my goodness! [We call it Brox in our house though].

[IAmNotAUserNumber]

She calls pizza pisa

[PageNowFoundFileUnderSpartacus]

Do the people who say brock-o-lie buy it at a del-eye? Do they have muesl-eye for breakfast and chill-eye con carne for lunch?

[MrsCobain]

When people say herb here it makes me want to punch them in the face. Dh has learned to pronounce the h now after one time I actually burst in to tears.

[FeliciaJollygoodfellow]

Awwlook- if I could get out I would, but I'm at work so procrastinating

[ThumbWitchesAbroad]

Ah, brocco-lie - don't. My Aussie MIL pronounces it that way. She also loses the R out of privet (so pivet) and there are other mispronunciations that just do my head in. Some of them are possibly down to mishearing, some to poor learning, and others are generic/regional Aussie.


MrsCobain - are you in the USA? I couldn't deal with that either - was watching Dragons Race to the Edge on Neflix the other day, and Hiccup (yes I know, I'm just SOOOO highbrow!) said "it's the erbs that make it green" and I just screeched at the tv (I sound so rational, don't I?) "It's HERBS! HERBS! With an H!"
Can't be doing with DSs picking up those "wrong" pronunciations as well.

[Gazelda]

Oh bloody shit ElQuinoto I've just left a voicemail for DH asking him to get some SillyBong on his way home, before I read your update.
He's going to roll his eyes and say "Mumsnet?" with a raised eyebrow. Again.

[Gazelda]

Sorry, elQuinto.