How do YOU pronounce Porsche?
 

I've heard many english speaking people call it a "Portia", like the female name.

Of course, proper PCA members call it a "Pour ch eh", just as the
Deutsche Bank is pronounced "Doy ch eh" Bank.

Recently while in Spain I found out that many there call it a
"Pour ch ay" (long A sound on the end).

Anybody familiar with any other fun/interesting variations used in other countries or languages?

Mark

It's pronounced Volks Wagon now. :D

So is it "Folksvagen" or "voltswagon"?

I would rather be part of VW than what happened to Land Rover and now be owned by Tata of India after being raped by Ford and BMW.

In Germany you'll find it's pronounced Folks Vagon (people's car).

When I bought my first Porsche I was living in Wiesbaden. A German friend of mine said Americans will never be able to pronounce the Doktor's name correctly. But, as close as we can come is Poursh-ah, with the emphasis on the first syllable.

Actually, because of this pronunciation issue (and because of the social stigma of being lumped with Carrera owners) I always refer to it as a "Boxster".

I always pronounce it Porsch-a. I heard since it is a name you should say it as they do in the native language. If it was any other word you are allowed to put your language pronunciation on it.

Now how does everyone pronounce "citroen"?? :cool:

A friend of mine, an older lady from Berlin, was DELIGHTED when I pronounced it porsch-uh - the way it's supposed to be pronounced. :D

Poor-shuh

Either Sit-chren
.....or Crap

German pronunciation is easy. Unlike English or French, you pronounce each letter.

The Porsche family pronounces it POR sha, so that's good enough for me.

BTW, most people mispronounce my German surname.

When we did the fast lane travlel tour years ago..
 

in Germany,our tour guide--a retired Porsche engineer-- pronounced it "Pour' Sha"

Y'all say Porch?

Living in San Francisco and driving a boxster, there are two mis-pronunciations that bother me on a regular basis:

Don't call it "Frisco"
and don't call it a "Porsh"

Seriously, that bothers you? I think 99% of Americans pronounce it Porsh so you really must be bothered on a pretty regular basis.

How I pronounce it: Eff You Enn, FUN!
I don't know the German word

Eric, is that you? Are you a Boxster guy now?

Hey Guys,

My wife has named my car "Porshee"

Later,
Mark1999

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. :D Sometimes I say Porsha sometimes I say Porsh, it doesn't really matter to me.

This one is a little more complicated. Citroën is pronounced something like sit-roh-ah.

English speakers struggle with this one for many reasons, one of which is not understanding what the umlaut (in French, tréma) on top of the "e" does to the pronunciation. An umlaut separates the vowel sounds, think of Noël, the "O" and "E" are separated to sound No-el, rather than sounding something like a word rhyming with roll, if the umlaut were not present.

i dont no y u r worried. we don't spell no more or type good. car gr8. call it p-car

I really don't hear people call it a "porsh" very often. But then I rarely leave the city.

ya i hear porsch(silent e) all the time. but ive also heard some people from some regions of the US call it NIKE (long I silent E) which is interesting. but at the end of the day every languange butchers words from the another one so its all good.

When I met Peter Porsche for the first time, he said: "Hi, I'm Peter Por sha." Then he autographed the inside of my hood.

Outstanding!

Well as English born and bred I guess I am qualified to have a opinion, here in UK again the masses would call it 'Porsh' while those in the know would probably call it by the correct pronunciation 'Porsh-ah' but to be honest calling it Porsh-ah makes you sound like some kind of upper class twit, and we incredibly still have a bit of a class thing going on here in Britain!!!
I am a owner but will always call it 'Porsh'

Chevrolet
US = chev-ro-lay
France = chev-ro-let

Moet y chandon
US=mo-ey
France= mo-et

Filet Mignon
US = fil-eh
France = feel - eh
UK = filit

Porsche
GMBH = pour - sha
US = porsch

Don't feel bad in other countries the slaughter english all the time, probably the most annoying is in Greece where they are convinced that a silent "e" is actually pronounced as "uh" followed by an ackward pause.

I'm Sorry, but I don't know where you got your information from!
I don't know of anywhere where Moet isn't pronounced anything but 'mo-ey', a 'Filet -o-fish' or 'Filet Mignon' will always be pronounced 'Fil-ay' because it's a name. A Fillet (pronounced Fil-et) would be used to describe a cut of meat or the noun - 'to fillet'.

I'm in the 'Porscha' depending on my mood ;)

This topic has spread to boxa.net in the UK:

http://www.boxa.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=42657&hl=

According to that thread [and pimpmythread here] most of the UK guys prefer "Porsh," to avoid seeming snooty. This thread suggests that in the US "Por-sha" is preferred.

Note the reference to "pretentious Americans" :matchup:

Ahem....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo%C3%ABt_et_Chandon

"Moët et Chandon (French pronunciation: [moɛte ʃɑ̃ɔ̃]"

Follow up post:

Gordon Ramsey pronouncing filet mignon... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfM_7uwH_Jw

By the way "to filet" is a verb not a noun.

Ok, I think I have made my point.

You have. Wikipedia is always right :)

I wouldn't take anything too seriously there...the Forum is called "Boxa" after all :)

I don't get the whole inverted snobbery thing - it's pronounced 'PORSH-A" so why try and dumb it down? :confused: :confused: Why is it considered "Snooty" to pronounce something correctly?

We colonists do carry an air of superiority, don't we? I've no idea why that exists. We certainly have no room to gloat about anything these days if you ask me. :ah:

I am 47 years old and in all my days I only know of one woman named Portia, (you know the hot blond actress from Aly McBeal).

How unbelievably pretentious that makes us as a nation.

I will say this though after spending years on the UK Land Rover boards, nobody can prison rape the english language like a Brit. Wot you say? You heard me.

Septic = Septic tank = Yank = American

Defense rests...

And all this time I thought your name for us "Yanks" was an abbreviation for yankee... not septic tank!

So where did we get Limey from? (No offense meant, by the way!)

Wasn't that something to do with Sailors eating Limes to prevent some sort of vitamin-deficient disease...'Scurvy' when sailing?

I used to live in the UK and still go there quite often on business. I am an anglophile at heart, I love the people and the country but get annoyed with them sometimes.

Septic is an example of Cockney Rhyming Slang, I was frequently refered to as a "septic" on the LRO board.

hahahaha ... agreed. The only reasonable explanation I've seen for deliberate mispronunciation is 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.

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. :D

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: <standing by car, waiting for tank to fill>
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... :rolleyes: