Common (mis)pronunciations

[Disaster Inc]

Not knowing pronunciations of words is common for autodidactic people, because most knowledge is gained from reading alone.

Wow, first time I ever read this thread, and I quickly realized I've been hacking some of these words.

Also the first I heard of autodidactic people, I googled it and was thinking holy crap that's me! My college educated girl laughs at me about my mis-pronunciation of words. I am full of useless information about lots of things, but learned it all from reading, so often I don't know the correct pronunciation, just what the word means.

http://www.realityspoken.com/autodidactic

Glad to see that Walt Disney was one of us.

Anyway, how do you pronounce Kamei? as in a Kamei spoiler?

[De //m3]

Guibo as far as I know is a slang term. It is always called flex-disc in the catalogue, but everyone just calls it a guibo.

The worst non-BMW mispronunciation in my book is "Nucular" for Nuclear, I hate those people.

[h82crash]

It'd be better to just CLARIFY what the real color names are.... SO many wrong names.

Zinobrot - Cinamon Red. Zin-oh-bro-t
Bronzit - Metallic Gold - Brawn-zit
Schwarz - Black - Sh-war-z
Alpinweisse - Alpine White - Al-pine-why-ss
Henarot - Hena Red/Orange- Hen-a-wrote
Lachsilber - Dark Silver - Lack-sill-berr

Sorry for bumping this thread, but only 2 of these were close to being right.

Zinnoberrot- zin-oh-bear-rote

The rest were covered. Yeah, nu-cu-ler sounds gay but, porsh pisses me off.

If you're ever in Deutschland, say "bay-em-vay" for BMW.

[Aptyp]

another douche thread?

I am glad so many of you are taking this lightly.

Funny thread.

[e34john]

The car driven by the 90 year old and the cat jumping off the front is a jag-you-are

[h82crash]

The car driven by the 90 year old and the cat jumping off the front is a jag-you-are

No, that's jag-you-were!

Aptyp, I did apologize for bumping it.

[E30QC]

325: dry-hun-drid, foon-f oond swan-sig

[Red88]

325: dry-hun-drid, foon-f oond swan-sig

Cool.

[Holland]

325: dry-hun-drid, foon-f oond swan-sig

If you call it a BMW three hundred twenty five.

P.S. I still call ETA, ee tee ayh, and yes I know it isn't proper.

[machined]

Where does "eta" come from?

[e34john]

greeks

[Fusion]

Just wanted to clear up some of this.

I know it has been covered, but I have heard a number of people from other countrys (Germans, Sweeds, Fins,...) pronounce Bistein "Bilsh-tain" and not "Bil-steen,"

Is it really Bil-steen?

It's Bill-shtyne. (end with the N - as in wine, not the E as in "tiny" ty-knee).

Zinobrot - Cinamon Red. Zin-oh-bro-t
Bronzit - Metallic Gold - Brawn-zit
Schwarz - Black - Sh-war-z
Alpinweisse - Alpine White - Al-pine-why-ss
Henarot - Hena Red/Orange- Hen-a-wrote
Lachsilber - Dark Silver - Lack-sill-berr

Not exactly right.

Zinobrot - Cinamon Red. TSin-ohb-rawt
Bronzit - Metallic Gold - Brawn-TSit
Schwarz - Black - Sh-war-TS
Alpinweiss - Alpine White - Al-pin-vice
Henarot - Hena Red/Orange- Hen-a-rawt
Lachsilber - Dark Silver - LawcH-zill-berr

Z - is pronounced "tss" - also C in some languages, like in the word tiTS (boobs)
S - is pronounced the same as Z in English - hence zill-berr, not sill-berr
SS - is pronounced the same as S in English
W - is pronouned the same as an English V, as in Vice (city ie.)

Now, CH is not pronounced CK, it's the sound cats make when hissing. It can sometimes be pronouned ck, but only in slang and in certain words.

Alpina = Al - pee - nuh
It's not "al" as in Al Bundy, nor is it "all". It's like the short "al" sort of like in "mental", so it could also be written as Ull - pee - nuh.

[87e30]

Bride the seat is pronounced brid.

[87e30]

Bride the seat is pronounced brid.

[mamzak]

What about camber?!

Is it:

K-ay-m-burr

or

K-am-burr
?