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

MaryMarigold Do the yanks also say 'erbivore' and 'ard of earing'

No we do not. Quite a few Americans do say 'erbs' instead of herbs though. I think that might be a carry over from the French fines herbes, after all a lot of the Southern US belonged to France at one point and its the third most spoken language in the US after English and Spanish.

Shouldn't it be Panteen because there is an 'e' on the end? If it was supposed to be Panten it would be spelled Panten not Pantene.

A1Sharon

I'm also a person who will say chorizo, croissant etc as they are meant to be pronounced.

Silly bong!? no that has to be a joke surely? I might casually throw it into conversation with DH this evening.

Drop I was brought up near to Nestles HQ in a big town in SE. We always called it (and I temped there), Ness-lay!

Ooh people who call Primark Preemark really annoy me....you wouldn't say pree-mary school or pree-mates for example....hence why Primark is NOT pronounced Preemark

@superflyhigh me too. And I can't work out if we misprounounced it due to being from 'Ayes, or whether that was generally what it was called then?

I think of it as ness-lay, but I'm sure when I was a kid they had an advert for milky bars, where they sang 'nessulls milky bar'. Maybe they got more French over the years :-D!

Reiss - I thought it was pronounced Rice as in the German way, but now everyone pronounces it Rees.

notaflying 'Ayes, no "whispers" I'm originally from near Croydon. shudder!

It was always Ness-lay too, I think as a kid I may have used Nessells.

L'oocitaine is lock si tan but the people in the shop don't always pronounce it correctly.

Chorizo is chore ee tho.

Tob-lerone or Tobe-lerone?

I say Tob but most people say Tobe.

Everybody knows it's not Primark, it's Primarché (OK, maybe that's just a joke we have...)

Don't even get me started on how to pronounce Dacia. I've always said "Dayceeah" but apparently it's "Datshuh" - urgh! What?!

Oh and I still delight in making my American colleague say Leicester. 10 years and he still can't say it. No, it's not "Lie-cest-or"

I was just about to dispute the Cillit Bang pronounciation but fortunately I read the whole thread first and realised Silly Bong was a joke! I was part of the team that brought Cillit Bang to the UK and we definitely pronounced it the way it is on the advert. It actually originated in Poland so we probably got it totally wrong

In the south of Ireland the official pronunciation of Lidl is Lye-dl. That's SO WRONG! Because it would be spelt Leidl if that's how it was pronounced

Ooh people who call Primark Preemark really annoy me

Well the TV adverts called it Pree-mark so I'm guessing thats what the company call themselves.

IAmNotAUserNumber
I always thought it was pronounced tortus, but what do I know?

When I was a kid I used to think that VO5 was said 'voz thinking the 5 was a S!

Now I shall get a glass of mo-wet and continue to enjoy this thread

my late MIL, bless her, used to buy heenz beans

Nothing to do with this really but for some reason it reminded me of hubby wanting to try the new spudulike took me ages to realise he meant spuds u like

that was a Victoria Wood joke, jocarter67

it is spud u like though?