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.

I was at the first Ikea store in the UK on the day it opened. They were very clear that it was eye-KEE-ah. No reason to change that, they can pronounce it however they want in other countries, but in the UK it's eye-KEE-ah. Not that I go and buy their crap furniture these days. Same with Nestles - the milky bar kid song just doesn't scan properly if your do the French version. I didn't get a Hyundai because I didn't know how to pronounce them so got a Skoda instead...oh, hang on 😖

Horace the Hyundai will remain a Hy-un-die!

I don't remember them even using 'Nestle's' in the the song. I think the words were:

The Milky Bar kid is strong and tough,
And only the best is good enough,
The creamiest milk,
The whitest bar,
The goodness that's in Milky Bar.

How does Hyacinth pronounce Bucket?

Because it not Spanish, but Catalan or possibly local dialect.

The Milky Bar kid is strong and tough,
And only the best is good enough,
The creamiest milk the whitest bar,
The good taste that's in Milky Bar,
THE MILKYBARS ARE ON ME!
Milky Bar so creamy white,
Nestles Milky Bar.

Cool, where was that @Melliphant ?

Not all their furniture is crap.

There is also 'Nestle's' Condensed Milk - I bet no one can find that pronounced Nesslay from the 60s, 70s or 80s

And along with Nike (now Nikee) there is also Adidas (all short vowels back then) which is now Adeedas.

But I live in Yorkshire and am regularly pulled up by the way I say English words, never mind non English ones.

It’s Ingrid BERGMAN, people!

re Jif/Cif, I think it was called Jif here because at the time it came on the market, Cif sounded like the slang for syphilis. They were able to change to Cif to bring us in line with other countries once the association with the clap had faded.

Also, I say Ness-lay but can only talk about “Nessuls Milky Bar” (sung to the advert tune, obvs).

Yes, and not BerGman - BerJmann! 😅

@Falalalafel I've just found out from Google I lied - apparently the first in the UK was Warrington. I was at the Wembley one in 1988, opened (unless I misremembered this too) by the awful Bernie Grant (shame it wasn't Eddie Grant) - drove all the way from Brixton because I needed some shelves and I obviously needed Scandanavian ones. Got a very cheap towel with massive "IKEA" on it which still does its towelly job and various other bargains.

Ford don’t seem to be able to make their mind up. Apparently Ecoboost is pronounced EEK OH BOOST, yet Ecosport is pronounced EK OH SPORT.

. Nessels Milky bar - but I do remember this coming up a few years ago and some of the 'evidence' on line was 'inconclusive'...

@Melliphant Ok still pretty cool. When Ingvar Kamprad was alive he handed out Christmas presents himself at our Ikea, and staff got to shake his hand. He was a very sensible and incredibly smart old man.

Old towels are the best anyway. Bought new fluffy ones, but always prefer the oldest ones I have.

Came on here to say that. Old school.

Are you actually me? I always think this - I pronounce French foods correctly (as far was I can) but NO WAY would I say hor ee-tho even tho I know its right. Cor-itz-o all the way🙂

The Ei of Eivissa (Ibiza in Catalan) is pronounced ee so I don't know where you get that from?

Also Stihl (powertools) previously know as Still and now pronounced Schsteel. I am glad it is now just me that is annoyed by all of these changes in pronunciation

Yep. I didn't know until a year or so ago that Catalans don't pronounce "c" or "z" as "th" . In fact they hate it because it's Spanish and they want away.

It's Eivissa locally and pronounced Ay-vissa.

And their sales team still pronounce it the 'incorrect' way in my local dealership! ! (I have one)

I think this one takes the biscuit for pronounceability.

I will pronounce it however I want to, as is my right.

Absolutely