British pronunciation of car brands vs. natives

The British are the absolute worst when it comes to pronouncing anything remotely foreign.

Have a posh-accented British OT 8 or better say the word "condom" to you in a positive manner and you'll always love that word for the rest of your life.

Not worth caring about. Pretty much a nothing burger.

If a non-English speaker or an English-as-second-language speaker from another country pronounced Chevrolet, as "chev-row-let" instead of "shev-row-lay" would anyone give a damn?

I thought I was going to watch that assuming the British say it in an odd way. Instead, they said it just like most of us do and I was surprised by the way natives actually pronounce it. The German ones really just came down to English saying W like we do, and Germans giving W a vee sound.

I thought the "host" of the video came off as an arse because he thought it was so terrible how the English didn't learn the other ways to say it. They probably just read the words without thinking about it. Hell, I've never heard a Mazda commercial pronounce it the way that video did.

:mmg:


made me giggle

Hyundai girl would get it

[quote]If a non-English speaker or an English-as-second-language speaker from another country pronounced Chevrolet, as "chev-row-let" instead of "shev-row-lay" would anyone give a damn?[/quote

This. No English speaker is going to call a BMW a B-M-Vee. It's a fricking W, thus we'd pronounce it in English.