How do YOU pronounce Porsche?

[mark1999]

Hey Guys,

My wife has named my car "Porshee"

Later,
Mark1999

[boxsternut]

The German way is "Porsh-ah", not "Porsh", so I guess 99% of you are wrong!

[Adam]

Originally Posted by boxsternut

The German way is "Porsh-ah", not "Porsh", so I guess 99% of you are wrong!

lol.....yeah I don't think there is a more widely mis-pronounced word here in America. If you randomly asked 100 Americans to say it, 99 of them would say Porsh, so the American pronunciation is Porsh. Sometimes I say Porsha sometimes I say Porsh, it doesn't really matter to me.

[ryanpw3]

I'm surprised nobody has brought up how the narrator says "Porsche" in the Porsche commercials. While regional nuances will always be in play with nearly any language, if there is a correct and incorrect way to say it, I'd hope they would get it right (according to Porsche, as a manufacturer) in their ads.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by ryanpw3

I'm surprised nobody has brought up how the narrator says "Porsche" in the Porsche commercials. While regional nuances will always be in play with nearly any language, if there is a correct and incorrect way to say it, I'd hope they would get it right (according to Porsche, as a manufacturer) in their ads.

Yeah even the Porsche commercial guy says pooorsh in slighty southern twang. Just listen very closely next time they air one.

[Bry]

I'm in the "Porsch-ah " group. I've found that, if a stranger approaches you with questions about your "porsh" and you are friendly and enthusiastic, but subtlely corrective, they will change the way they say it... at least for that conversation.
Example: (Random encounter late this summer, filling up at a gas station near my office; heavily paraphrased)
Me:
Guy: "excuse me - is that your Porsch? is it fast? How much $$$ is a Porsh"
Me: standard answers... working in the correct pronunciation; something like "...Actually, you can pick up a Porsch-ah used for a whole lot less than you might think..."
Guy: "cool, I'll check out porsch-ah's on Ebay"

I think it's kind of amusing how many people will adjust their pronunciation to match mine; I've almost made it a game.

Then again, I've also used "Porsh" at PCA events just to see what sort of reactions I get, so maybe I'm just a troublemaker...

[Lobo1186]

that forum is alot more violent for lack of better terms.... quite funny. :dance:

[pimp my box]

Quote:- wanted to avoid sounding anything like Jeremy Clarkson, the guy who plays the "odious Brit" character [also featured on A. Idol and Hells Kitchen shows] on Top Gear.

Hey that not a character he's playing he really is that 'odious' and proud of it (and loved for it).........................and by the way when are you Yanks going to learn how to pronounce Jaguar and Nissan properly?


And while we are on a roll, Landrovered the word is DEFENCE!!!

Oh and you all write the date the wrong way round, today is 22-12-2009!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS GUYS (from the motherland)

[Lobo1186]

you will find many ways to write the date here in the US. the way I use is

2009DEC22

and how do you pronounce jaguar and nissan