AUDIO: COMPANY NAMES WE’VE BEEN MISPRONOUNCING ALL THESE YEARS
From MSN.com, here are some corporate names you’ve probably been mispronouncing:
– Ikea: How we pronounce it: eye-key-ah; How you’re supposed to pronounce it: ih-key-yah
– Zagat: How we pronounce it: za-get; How you’re supposed to pronounce it: za-GAT
– Nutella: How we pronounce it: nuh-tell-uh; How you’re supposed to pronounce it: new-tell-uh
– Porsche: How we pronounce it: porsh; How you’re supposed to pronounce it: por-sha
– Fage yogurt: How we pronounce it: fahj; How you’re supposed to pronounce it: fah-yay
– Hermes purses: How we pronounce it: her-meez; How you’re supposed to pronounce it: air-mez
– Volkswagen: How we pronounce it: volks wag-en; How you’re supposed to pronounce it: vo-ks var-gun
– Sega: How we pronounce it: say-ga; how you’re supposed to pronounce it: see-ga
– Louis Vuitton: How we pronounce it: loo-is vee-ton; How you’re supposed to pronounce it: loo-ee we-taahn
– Bayer aspirin: How we pronounce it: bay-er; How you’re supposed to pronounce it: buy-er
* We’ll all get right on that, “ih-kee-yah”.
* Fage yogurt. You know, they could have just put any random four letters there and said, “It’s pronounced Fah-yay. So eff you.”
* I’ve been afraid to go near F-A-G-E yogurt, ’cause I don’t want to get called out for homophobia.
* Bayer? I pronounce that “Tylenol”.
* Golly, we wouldn’t want to offend any corporations by not saying their names right.
* Is it “PRE-tentious” or “pre-TEN-tious”?
* Also, it’s BITE me, not bite ME.
* Sorry, but Hermes the son of Zeus wants it pronounced her-meez.
* If I’m paying $3,000 for a Louis Vuitton tote bag, I’ll pronounce it any damn way I want.
* Of course, that’ll never happen, but still …
CLIP: How about this one? Our classic Jaguar parody.
