serial mispronunciation

[seagullsovergrimsby]

I'm not sure NISA and BEKO have obvious pronunciations. They're foreign brands and how the natives of the countries they're from pronounce them usually has little bearing on how we choose to pronounce them.

As for Amex, it's a portmanteau of American and Express, so it is correctly pronounced as it is written, AM-EX.

NISA isn't foreign , just northern (originally pronounced NEESA) and was formed in 1977 as a convenience store wholesaler (set up along the lines of a co-operative) by Grimsby supermarket entreprenuer Dudley Ramsden. Mr Ramsden is the Life President of Grimsby Town FC.

 

[Mackenzie]

Haitch instead of aitch when pronouncing the letter H. f*** sake!

 

[Acker79]

Haitch instead of aitch when pronouncing the letter H. f*** sake!

Makes me think of eddie izzard joke criticising american pronunciation "it's herb, not 'erb. There's an 'aitch at the beginning"

 

[Lincoln Imp]

'Skedule'

 

[DumLum]

You need to be more pacific.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

 

[DumLum]

Haitch instead of aitch when pronouncing the letter H. f*** sake!

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Sorry haven't worked out how to do multiple quotes yet.

 

[glasfryn]

I worked for Amex for 8 years and it was always Ammex

then why not spell it that way

NISA isn't foreign , just northern (originally pronounced NEESA) and was formed in 1977 as a convenience store wholesaler (set up along the lines of a co-operative) by Grimsby supermarket entreprenuer Dudley Ramsden. Mr Ramsden is the Life President of Grimsby Town FC.

thank you
and I am sure Steve Beko of SA resistance fame did not pronounce his name BEKKO
we are sliding down to the thin end of the wedge nudged on by slick advertisers

 

[Acker79]

then why not spell it that way

Because it merges 'American' (which has one M) with 'Express' (which has no Ms).

 

[The Large One]

then why not spell it that way

Wot?

and I am sure Steve Beko of SA resistance fame did not pronounce his name BEKKO
we are sliding down to the thin end of the wedge nudged on by slick advertisers

What about Steve Biko then?

 

[glasfryn]

Wot?



What about Steve Biko then?

OOPS sorry
and sorry Steve Biko I should know better

 

[Brovion]

Good to see people trying their upmost to persuade Glasfryn that he's wrong.

 

[glasfryn]

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

never seen this before
off to try and buy a pistol with a silencer

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

There is no such thing as a panini.

One of my all time favourite facts!

 

[glasfryn]

EXERAY FOR X-RAY my first wife used to say that (wish I had shot her) I would be out now with good behavior.








any more?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Is it glass-fry-N by the way or glazzfrin, or something Welsh that resembles neither?

 

[The Large One]

Titbits. That's another one.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

You need to be more pacific.

Think you'll find that it's "percific"

 

[The Large One]

Pronouncing 'have' as 'get'.

 

[Jam The Man]

I will NEVER, so long as grass is green, recognise the pronunciations of Nike as Nikey... or Porsche as Porscher

 

[LadySeagull]

Good to see people trying their upmost to persuade Glasfryn that he's wrong.

Gawd I hate that mistake 'upmost' when it's 'utmost'!

But to be fair, Glasfryn has started this thread 'off his own back*'.







*should be 'bat', obviously, for anyone who actually says 'back' for that phrase...pleeeease don't say it in front of me or I WILL scream!