Buick Mispronounces its Own SUV's Name

Shouldn't that be "Fra-zhay"?

RichC

"Orientated" is actually a word. It's more commonly used in British English than in American English, but it most certainly is a word.

Go look it up on Webster.com

DS

Since we are making jokes, how about this:

It might be raining today, but yesterday you couldn't see the mountain at all because it was Rainier.

ha!

Next thing you'll be telling me that I'm wrong to pronounce the word GHOTI as FISH Everyone knows that GHOTI spells FISH, its so obvious!!!! GH - as in enouGH = F O - as in wOmen = I TI - as in staTIon = SH

Um this may sound strange but Im from Texas and was just woundering......I cant seem to find any of this info in the glossary of my chilton....But ill go down and look on the walls in the toilet stalls at the bar ...If all this is really important Im sure it will be in one of them...:) Obviously some people just aint never been to a place where they call their oldest child Tater. Anyone know what happen to scrib/marsh? Steve C

... why, I believe you're *trolling*!

-Kenny

I guess you've never run across the names "Taliaferro" and "Worcester", then.

(often pronounced "Tolliver" and "Wooster")

FWIW, the movie "The List of Adrian Messenger" hinged on a plot device where a character spelled his name Brutenholm but pronounced it Broom.

Dick Evans

Me wrote in news:srhi- snipped-for-privacy@comcast.ash.giganews.com:

He does. He doesn't like America, in case you missed his subtlety.

The vehicle was built in Canada...

But that's because they're speaking French. In French you say it "Etats-Unis" just as in English, one prounces the capital of their country "Pair-iss" instead of "Pair-EE."

The point still stands: People get to call their own names/cities/etc. whatever they want in their own language.

Yes I have. Care to know what I think of them? ;-]

--Aardwolf.

One of those overly ornate British words with needless extra characters (in this case syllables).

No sir, I don't like it.

--Aardwolf.

Actually, it's closer to run-EAR.

Duh-TRWA, but that's way too difficult for normal people to say.

Let's not forget Peer, South Dakota. I think the pronunciation of these entities is altered from the original for the same reason that we called them 'freedom fries' for a while.

Monty Python proved that repeatedly.

And I thought that the folks here in middle GA were the only crazy ones, where we have both a street and a county of "Hows-ton".

Peter ...who's on his way to Anchorage AK this summer...........

Paradox wrote: This is the only funny post to this entire thread, except for mine of course:

That does it. Pdx is officially HF's Boy. HAHAHAHAHa

-- GW - Conservational Ergonomist - note incorrect email address

Have you driven a Buick lately? How do you know he's wrong?

I found no humor in PDX's original post, which was off topic of course.

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