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Diesel was invented by a German engineer and his name and namesake fuel is pronounced "deezil" in German. The term coupe comes from the French 'coupe'', where it is pronounced "coo-pay". We Americans tend to have our own versions of pronunciation for foreign words as well as some interesting regional variations on English words.

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That was good! You probably needed a nap after all that thinking. Grin

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How do you pronounce Wednesday ?
Why don't they spell it like this === whensday :confused:




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Coz it's pronounced Wedn - s - day.
On another common mispronunciation, most people pronounce Everest as ever - rest whereas the family of the man after whom the mountain is named, pronounce it Eve - rest.
Wonder where this could take us!:confused:

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Its always been Willees here in NZ

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Do you say "gosh darn it" or "*uck" when you smash a knuckle?

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I used go to the liberry to look up proper pronunciation but now I use the internets. Does anyone know what IDK means? No one I ask seems to know either.

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There seems to be a fantasy or pastime to restructure pronunciations. Since my uncle bought one in the early 50s, it's been "Willees" and willys it shall remain. If you want play with some brains, Try W.A.C.O. (Weaver Aircraft co) This name is pronounced like "Whaco", not Waaco like the city in Texas. Not many people outside the aviation world know this. So if you want to be thought of as erudite, thoughtful, and intellectually superior, find a word that you can mispronounce and make it seem like they've they've been mispronouncing all their lives. This not new, when my wife was pregnant, the nurse called out the size of the opening in "Sonimeters". I asked, what the heck was a "Sonimeter", It was her version of Centimeter. That was 45 years ago. Pure snobbery!
Terry

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There was a man in Candia N.H.that had a Waco in the early 70's.He pronounced it,Wawco.Interesting fellow,he claimed he won the plane in a card game just after returning from Korea,where he was a helicopter pilot.

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"Hoo-dye"

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My mother always said Koopay. Everyone else said Koop!!! And it was Willis back in the day.

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:D ;):rolleyes:

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How about Brougham? I have head it pronounced "Broam", "Broom" and in some areas of town "Bro-Ham". :-)

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Don't forget the tomatos, or is it tomattos?

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I've always pronounced the word as Willis . I take the word willys - Willis to be the last name of the owner of the company that built it . .Willys sounds like it belongs to Willy .

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How about "turbine" and " turbin" ? Watching a story on the wind turbine farms being built, the engineers called them turbins, defininately wrong, as we know a turbin is a form of head cover.

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It's also a regional thing.Where I am there is no R in,corn,car,wiper,etc.A lot of times there is an R in the word wash though.A couple of years ago we were at a Christmas party(no R) at the salvage yard.(no R in yard either)A friend was talking about a show called Pawn Stars.We don't have cable or watch much TV,so we didn't know what he was talking about.My wife said why have a show about ponn stars? If I want to see ponn stars I will watch a ponn movie.That's how we pronounce it,so that's what she thought he was talking about.

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Sorry ,I misspelled turban, but the outcome is the same