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      09-06-2019, 01:19 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by pikkagtr View Post
When auto "journalists" do not pronounce Porsche correctly
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I'm weird
So I love the “correct” pronunciation: Porsh-Uh

When I was a wee fry, my dad bought a 356 in Germany while enjoying the employ of the US Army, and brought it back to the US when we returned. Many memories of drives in that car, including him always liking to refer to it as the “porsh-eee”. He knew the correct German pronunciation but that was just more fun.

Several years ago when my attorney was deposing my ex-wife and her (now ex) lover, my attorney asked about her porsh and my wife, recorded for all posterity, corrected her emphatically with “Porsh-Uh”. A small town judge doesn’t really cotton to that level of pseudo-sophistication. So my wife 2.0 and I really enjoy it every time we hear the correct pronunciation.

Like Jag-U-Are it may be correct but it just ain’t right!
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