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How do you pronounce Primark?

137 replies

Buttybach · 22/04/2019 02:00

This weekend it occurred to me that I say primark in a weird way!

Do you say it Primark (i as in eye)
Or Primark (i as in eee)

OP posts:
Eustasiavye · 22/04/2019 11:00

Pr-eye-mark or pr-eye-marni

PlainSpeakingStraightTalking · 22/04/2019 11:00

Pry mark

Unless its the piss take, pree-mah-knee (Primani)

MoreSlidingDoors · 22/04/2019 11:00

The seventh circle of hell.

CupcakeDrama · 22/04/2019 11:03

Nisa (nice-a or neese-a)

Me and my kids debate this one all the time as I never know how to bloody pronouce it lol

PhilomenaButterfly · 22/04/2019 11:04

Preyemark.

RedPanda2 · 22/04/2019 11:05

House of Primani

InglouriousBasterd · 22/04/2019 11:07

Pree but that’s a hangover from living in Wales for years. Now in. London and people look very strangely when I see Preemark...

SherlockSays · 22/04/2019 11:10

It is definitely Primark as in Pr-eye-Mark.

WhentheRabbitsWentWild · 22/04/2019 11:34

Primark as in eye for the i

MitziK · 22/04/2019 11:40

This is the 21st Century version of 'Why are they calling it Neslay now? It's Nessle's Milky Bar'.

zukiecat · 22/04/2019 11:43

Prymark

In NE Scotland

RedTitsMcGinty · 22/04/2019 11:44

Preemark. I’m Norn Irish and a child of the 70s/80s and now the adverts are stuck in my head.

GoFiguire · 22/04/2019 11:44

Prim Muck.

DrinkFeckArseGirls · 22/04/2019 11:44

Pr-eye-mark - SW London.

Pasithea · 22/04/2019 11:45

SHIT.

outpinked · 22/04/2019 11:46

Like eye, never heard it pronounced the other way.

LaurieMarlow · 22/04/2019 11:50

Penny’s

Me too Grin

SerenDippitty · 22/04/2019 12:02

Primmark. Short I sound. I’m in Wales.

BastianBux · 22/04/2019 12:18

Pry-mark. Or Pry-mani (when I was a teenager haha)

CurtainsOpen · 22/04/2019 12:21

Like Primary. Hampshire.

Never even considered an alternative

mojitogirl18 · 22/04/2019 12:30

Preemark Northern Ireland

thefairyfellersmasterstroke · 22/04/2019 12:37

"Gieves & Hawkes"

Even this one is fraught with difficulty! I always assumed the first part was pronounced 'Jeeves' but apparently it's not - it's a hard 'g', like 'gear'.

I've never known anyone who shops at Primark and talks about it, so I've never heard it said aloud. Could it be a similar scenario to Lidl, who couldn't presuade the UK natives to pronounce it 'Leedil' and eventually gave in and called it 'Liddle" themselves?

Also know someone who used to say "Lye-dill".

MaiaRindell · 22/04/2019 12:40

In Scotland, it's always Preemark

Citrina · 22/04/2019 12:42

You wouldn't say pree-mary school (primary school) so why Pree-mark?
I think it's Pry-mark

Feilin · 22/04/2019 12:46
its pree mark