Buick Mispronounces its Own SUV's Name

Is that what you call it in Texas? ;-)

Dave

I cant seem to find any of this info in the glossary of

Would that be pronounced Ahn-kor-azsh? ;-)

I'm surprised nobody has yet mentioned one of the most widespread bastardizations of city names. Nobody except the hispanics properly pronounces the city of the angels, la ciudad de Los Angeles.

It's so obvious he's one of those simpletons with a "problem" with SUVs.

-Kenny

Are things slow at the Office de la Langue Française?

Wasn't Mt. Rainier originally called Mt. Tacoma.........Maybe Buick could change names - oh wait, it's taken.

Ed

Or the (somewhat small) town in Oregon.

Well, Jaguar keeps calling their car "Jag-yoo-are."

The snoot factor there really grates.

John

Well, you'd better get orientated to it.

John

Really? Where I come from, 'green death' beer is pronounced, "ROL-ing Rahk".

-- C.R. Krieger (Been there; drank that)

And I BELIEVE billionaire Tiger Woods rides one of those pieces of s---, I really do!

-Rich

What do you *want* the English to call 'em? "Haag-WAHR"? It's *correct* and *original*, after all. Beats the hell out of the American Boor (TM) term, "JAG-wire", IMNSHO.

I suppose you'd be annoyed to discover that a 'B-M-W' is called "Bey Em Vey" where they build *them*.

-- C.R. Krieger (Been there; drives them)

I believe it's longer than that -- Ciudad de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula (sp). Maybe even more, but I got tired of googling.

And bein' dat I'm from Chicagah, I tink all tree of youse guys is goofier than that guy over by dere.

DN

top posting ignorance corrected...

So what? And it is spelled canaduh.

New Oar-lins......New Oar-LEENS......New Oar-lee-ins

We all know what they're talking about.

Probablly is. Especially since we took out their butt-buddy Saddam Hussein. :)

-- Paul

Funny, the name of the mountain shown on my license plates is pronounced ray-NEER.

=== Steve Shoreline, Washington USA snipped-for-privacy@seanet.com

Yeah, what were the writers thinking?!

Cretin.

For decades we unwashed here in the states have been calling them "Jag-wahrs." That's also what *they've* been calling them in marketing them to us. Until recently, that is, when their ad firm had to come up with a new gimmick.

The funny thing is, after the agency-produced commercial ends, the local voice will come on with the local dealer names and he will say "Jag-wahr." Kind of squashes the snoot factor.

John

Yeah. In this case, "N'Awlins".

-- C.R. Krieger (Been there; done that)