Wednesday, November 16, 2005

dummy's guide to saving blushes

I don't speak the Queen's English. In fact, I'm not even half a yard close. But whenever someone in front of me goes "Re-knot, Re-knot" I have an irrepressible urge to correct him in the face. And I normally do, unless it's the boss, a menacing 90kg bodybuilder, or some tattoo-bodied dude with a parang knife behind his back who said it.

Many of us aspire to drive continental cars. Before we could do so, however, the least we could do is to learn how to pronounce their goddam names. You may not know French, German or Italian, but you really should know their names because they're everywhere. Come on, don't embarrass yourself!

Anyway, as part of a simple prop's public education service, here's a simple guide to correctly pronouncing some commonly mispronounced carmakers. I might be wrong too, in which case I stand corrected. Thank you very much. :)
  • Porsche - pronounced as por-shuh (like Portia in The Merchant Of Venice), not as por-shay (it's not french) and definitely NOT as posh.
  • Renault - pronounced as rare-kno, not as ree-knot or rare-knot.
  • Peugeot - pronounced as perl-geo, not as peo-geo or peo-gurt(?!).
  • Proton - pronounced as proton, not as junk or toy-car.
Here's a bonus question: Which of the above doesn't belong?

It's a no-brainer, ha!
(See comments for answer)

1 Comments:

Blogger Oh said...

And the answer is...

Renault! It doesn't start with the letter P.

Why? You were thinking of something else? :p

Wednesday, November 16, 2005 9:09:00 PM  

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