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

My sister insists on calling Superga runners Sue-PER-ga. apparently that is the pronunciation in Italy (?). But everyone in the UK says SUE-perga, and she sounds like a ninny. She won't listen though. She's the kind of person that will say Choritho.

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.

Largely your MIL, I'd say.

Athough, aren't regional pronunciations extraordinarily diverse in England?That was my experience.

Dropzone did you live in Hatton by any chance?

I was shocked when I heard how 'quinoa' was said!
Kin-wa.

Also my OH calls puma 'poo-ma' I call them 'pew-ma'
Which is correct??

Yeah, Carluccio is definitely going to have a "ch" there for the "cc" because it's Italian. One of the nicest things about the Italian language, apart from the lilting sound of it, is that things are pronounced consistently - in other words, the same set of letters will always be pronounced the same way. "zz" will always be "ts" and "cio" will always be "ch(e)o"

MDFalco - the broccoleye isn't just MIL, that's for sure - I've met several people who say that.

Clough and Loughborough. It's cluff and Luffboro in England.
Pronounced klok and lochborough in Northern Ireland.

Preemark here in South Wales, Prymark in London. I spend time in each place and have to remember to say it the right way for wherever I am. I always feel silly saying Prymark

I've only ever heard lidl pronounced lid-l like a saucepan lid with a phonic 'l' at the end.

A German friend says, "In Germany we pronounce it Lee - del* But when in the UK she says Lidl

he broccoleye isn't just MIL, that's for sure - I've met several people who say that.
I don't think I've ever heard anyone use that pronunciation. As for "pivet" for privet, I must say I've only heard people or things "pivot" or "pivotting" - never have I heard anyone despairing about trying to get the pivet out of their yard.

Although, I must say, teaching in the UK, I was often taken aback at various pronunciations, such as "tor-toy-see" and "por-poy-see" for tortoise and porpoise. Even simple word like "book" and "look" seemed to have at least two valid pronunciations. I just assumed it was a regional thing and thought, good, let's celebrate the difference.

Lidl used to advertise on TV calling themselves 'Leeedl' but then I noticed that they had toned it down to sound more like a cross between 'Leeedl' and 'Lidl' presumably to tie in with their marketing where they use phrases like 'it's the Lidl things'.

On the subject of tortoise - it's
Tor-tus isn't it, nor tor-toyce?

And garage. I grew up saying Garr-arge (to rhyme with large, but equal emphasis on both syllables).
Ga-RARGE was pretentious and posh; garrij lazy and wrong.
Now everyone around me says garrij and I feel pretentious and posh saying garr-arge

Still wetting myself at Silly Bong

Clough and Loughborough. It's cluff and Luffboro in England.

It's more like Loofbruh in Loughborough.

DP says Ad-deeeedas rather than Ad-De-das. (Scoucers and their trainer obsession)

The N Ireland pronunciation of Clough, Lough etc is really hard to write phonetically in a way that English people recognise. I suppose it's a bit like the Scottish 'Loch' but the sound is in the back of your throat. Like if you're coughing up phlegm

DP says Ad-deeeedas rather than Ad-De-das.

I say ah-DEE-diss for Adidas (Edinburgh accent). I know it's pronounced the other way but I've only heard it said like that once in person and it sounds so odd

On the subject of trainers, I still say Nike to rhyme with pike, as that is what it was when I was growing up. But apparently it's pronounced nikey?

Yep, Nike is Ny-kee (two syllables) Eminy

Yes, Italians call the shoes SuPERga.

Eminybob

Yes, apparently named after Nike, the Greek goddess of victory. I still pronounce it the same way as you though, I always have and it's habit now.

Nike and Aphrodite. But as it's a shoe not a god, I think I'll stick with Nike. Know your place overpriced shoe brand!

Nike pisses me off - I'd prefer it to rhyme with trike rather than the half-hearted stab at Greek but nothing like it abomination that they've chosen.

Oreo too. It's unfortunate how stabby a little knowledge of another language can make you

What should Oreo be?

Isn't it OR-ee-oh

Should it be OR-ay-oh?

Nike should definitely rhyme with bike, trike and mike. Otherwise maybe it should be 'Knee-kay'.

Greek friends pronounce it something like or-RAY-oh but my phonetic English can't really do it justice. It's quite a soft sounding word IYKWIM.

It Italy Cif was pronounced chief. Here they changed the name from Jif (jiff) to Cif (siff). No no no. If that is the way is should be pronounced it should be called Siff.