First they came for IKEA

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Then they came for Hyundai………

AIBU to think if you want our money tell us who you are from the start.

This is brilliant (to me anyway!). About Lidl/Aldi. Sung in a great pub in Listowel, Co. Kerry Ireland, where I had the privilege of visiting some years ago, but not when this guy was singing his anthem!

I just heard the Hyun-day advert.
I have no idea why if this is the right pronunciation they used to say hi-oon-die in the adverts before?!?

Is Lego still Leg oh?

For Porshe I say Pawsher but nearly everyone I know says Pawsh. As a child, my parents had a friend who worked for them and that's the way he said it. I don't know if I'm wrong or not.

The correct response when someone corrects your pronunciation of a foreign word is to apologise and get it right, not to double down with a Western superiority complex on MN.

And I've just noticed I've spelt it incorrectly too! I mean Porsche

Not kite...they say it as if it rhymes with Bike, rather than with Spikey

But then everything would be in the mee-del of lee-del and that wouldn't work.

@cakeorwine , more like Ley-go

Surprising that. I always thought the only way is Essex.

I thank you. Too kind. You've been a wonderful audience.
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@itsgettingweird , I try to get pronunciations right, and if I fail then don't mind being corrected, but do get monoglots correcting me on words from my mother tongue.

I've heard 'These Germans don't realise we can understand them' more than once when we've definitely not been speaking German.

or variations of.

Ibuprofen/brufen is the one that gets me!

I’ve even heard other nurses say it and it makes me go

It’s Lee-go (not o as in oh)

I feel seen 😆

That's interesting. Would there be different dialects in Sweden? The reason that I ask is that a relative of mine is also Swedish and would say ick-kay-yah as the name of the flat pack furniture retailer. I wouldn't call the actress Eye-ngrid Borgman but then it was very obvious what her name was because it was spelled Ingrid, so there really wasn't the wiggle room there is with the furniture shop's name.

Me too, it made me cringe but then felt bad when I found it was the original name used in hospitals, I believe.

We pronounce Lidl Leedl in NI!! We are right😃

We clocked Hyundai being pronounced differently a few years ago in the States and both commented on the ad yesterday when we saw it.

For a business like IKEA they wanted us to get used to their product and their stores, not to have to pronounce their name in a way that seemed alien. We've a long history of anglicising names.

Is she from the very south of Sweden, like Malmö? Then the dialect would be Ick-ey-a.

See, I grew up in a different country (not Asian, but closer to that side of the world than blighty) and pronounced the car as Hyun-Day. Came back to UK in the mid 00s and realised it was Hai-yun-die here. It took quite a bit of time to change it in my head as I always had to stop and think before saying the word. Now I'm going to have to go through that again in reverse? Honestly! I have real work to be getting on with. Tsk tsk

And if you live in Halifax, it's 'Mack's'

You’re right. It became Nes-lay roundabout the 80’s

But we say 'Pontyland' and 'Ponteeland' the same (Southern jessie here). I actually knew someone from that area and she said 'Pontiland'.