Pronunciation Thread.

[xtant21]

Originally Posted by si_civic

^ He's not. He pm'd me on how to pronounce Honda.

Hon-duh or Hon-dahh?

Por-shhhhh or Porshhh-uhhhh?

B-M-W or beemer or bimmer?

Ford or Fix Or Repair Daily or Found On the Road Dead?

I could see where it could get confusing...

[si_turbo]

tein is pronounced as TAIN

[06blaksi]

Originally Posted by xtant21

Ford or Fix Or Repair Daily or Found On the Road Dead?

F*cked Over Recycled Dodge

For Only Rainy Days

[Tybeedon]

Originally Posted by xtant21

Hon-duh or Hon-dahh?

I believe the Japanese say this quickly as: "Hahn-dah!"
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Por-shhhhh or Porshhh-uhhhh?

It is "Porsche," of course, and pronunced: "Porshh-uh."
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B-M-W or beemer or bimmer?

It is "Beemer" (or Beamer) for BMW Motorcycles, and
"Bimmer" for BMW automobiles. I belonged to the BMW Club of NA way back in
'96 when I had a Bimmer 3281s coopay.. )

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Ford or Fix Or Repair Daily or Found On the Road Dead?

I could see where it could get confusing...

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Oh yeah!... try pronouncing "Citroen Deux Cheveaux" or "Traction Avant!"

Tybeedon, who speaks four languages: German, French, English and Profane -- only fluent in the last one! (People who say "Porshh" for "Porsche", leaving off the last 'uhh sound,' drive me nuts -- it's no longer an unknown "werd." Heh..heh )

[si_civic]

Citroen Deux Cheveaux is pronounced

Seh-troin Duh Sha-voh

[j'sFG2]

Peugeot motors

"Pay-sho"
or
"Pee-go"
???

[Tybeedon]

Originally Posted by j'sFG2

Peugeot motors

"Pay-sho"
or
"Pee-go"
???

"Poohje-oh", 'Poogeoh'. The "g" part is softish, as in "rouge," French for red.

[thaijai114]

5Zigen =
5 = "Go" in Japanese.

5zigen = GoZigen

Pronounced as "Go-jiken".

Something like that..

[Bambamsd]

Originally Posted by Doolie77

I think we need an achronym thread also. I see these and I'm not familiar with ALL the lingo yet.

FG=?
HPS=?
CAI=Cold air intake
etc...

There's a thread already started to help you out. Believe me, It helped out alot!

[aki]

Ack, wrong pronunciations thrown around.

Mugen is not moo-gen. The oo sound is shorter, like "book" or "put" rather than "food" or "ooze". The emphasis is on gen, so it would be mu-GEN. MOO-gen is wrong, and it's often pronounced like that.

5zigen don't believe people who say it's pronounced Go-zee-gen. The Zee sound doesn't event exist in Japanese. It sounds like Go-G-Gen (as in the letter G). Again, the emphasis is on the "gen" so it would be pronounced like "go-gee-Gen." The "gee" is very short, almost sounding like an "i" as in "big".

Nismo Ni-sue-moe. Pronounced faster it sounds like Niz-moe.

Honda In Japanese it sounds more like hone-da. Mazda is called Matsuda in Japanese.

[powerbook76]

I used to pronounce Mugen as Myu-Gen (like Mu in Music).
Recently my father looked at the Mugen written in Japanese and told me
it should be pronounced Moo Gen (like Gang without g)
He said that the word "Moo" means nothing in japanese. I forget what Gen meant tho..

[Yodums]

Yeah, my Japanese friend corrected me a long time and told me Mugen in Japanese is Moo-Gen. Where the "Gen" is pronounced like "gan" rather than "gen" in generation.

[marc-o-lishuz]

Touge (tow-gey)
A Japanese term referring to a windy, mountain road.
"Wow, that idiot totally lost control trying to dorifto around that touge!"

[sofa king]

what about Tanabe?

[dentrecords]

camber

caim burr or cam burr?

[si_civic]

Originally Posted by sofa king

what about Tanabe?

Ta-na bee.

[si_civic]

Originally Posted by dentrecords

camber

caim burr or cam burr?

It's pronounced Zoink

[dentrecords]

you learn something new everyday.

Although I already knew about Darryl's poofy finger.

[si_civic]

^ lmao.

LMAO is pronounced la-may-oh.

[PSU Pinoy PSU]

i always thought lmao thought it was uhl-mm-ow