No. You're both wrong.

Wiki link...

And you believe Wikipedia ?

Wish I had never mentioned it now. I guess forums aren't the place for subtle humour huh?

As for the pronunciation of Porsche. It's Porsh-uh. But then again we pronounce loads of car marques incorrectly and this argument could go on for ages yet. However my point still stands, people sound like pretentious twunts when they over pronounce the "uh" bit ... as if they're making some kind of point. :p

Or there finishing off .... uhhh

Technially it's neither Porsh, or Porsh-a. It's somewhere between. Not quite a silent "ah", but imagine bottling out half way through saying it. Like an intake of breath of something. Either way, Porsh sounds more manly

Technially it's neither Porsh, or Porsh-a. It's somewhere between. Not quite a silent "ah", but imagine bottling out half way through saying it. Like an intake of breath of something. Either way, Porsh sounds more manly

Actually, that's not a bad way of describing it.

Or if you don't really like them it could be.....

.......Porsh............urrrrrrrrgh........

I'm glad someone posted a link from the Yeti section to here... because I completely missed it the first time round.

I guess its like the americans and jaguar they say jagwar.........unless of course that is the correct way of saying it?

Everything gets lost to tranlation, I could never say my school friends name correctly (either could anyone else) in the end he and his father gave up, but then for some reason his dad could never get my name right.

We Brits always get the pronunciation of foreign names wrong. It's because we can't be @rsed to learn any foreign languages. And on the most part we don't have to as everyone else speaks English.

Is it Byork or is it Byurk?

Koniggsegg or kurniggsegg?

Monaco or Munarco?

Purzhow or Pyoozhow (Peugeot)

Etc.....

Sorry, but I'm in the Porsh camp I'm afraid.

I mean, how many people say Folksvagen FFS ? It's a Volkswaggon :yes:

When asked the name of the German air force during WWII, would you say 'Luftwaff'?

I go with whatever sounds most natural - people who say 'Porsch-uh' sound like pretentious twonks.

The plate SHKODA is available in NZ - should I?

In the pronousciation of Porsche, I say it both ways.

This Porsh Nine-eleven is made by Porsh-uh. I never say Porsher 911.

I say SkOda.

However as the proper spelling is Škoda, (with a Caron symbol on the S) then I suppose it should be Schkoda.

BTW to get Š, hold Alt and type 0138 into keypad. It's a bit like Alt + 248 for degree sign. °. Also the Caron may be what the V is in vRS.