patrooper

Audi? Is Oww-di or is ah-di? Dealer tells it's correct both ways.

Jusforfun

Oww-di but in Ireland you still hear the worst offender, Awe-di. At least we have stopped saying ren-alt and can now say ren-O

Old Dog

It's more like Owe-thee .

kleinbus

Fellow comrades....

Please, please (can't you see I'm on my knees and begging)

DO NOT "English" the Audi word.

It is German word and it is pronounced German way and it happens to be almost same way as it is pronounced in Finland.

English language twists the letter to something else and it is not pronounced as it is written.

In English,

A = ei
U = ju
I = ai


or so (I'm not native English speaker so why I even bother to try to make example of English pronouncing).


Here is utube clip from German add from Audi R8.

Play it LOUD at 0:53 sec and German narrator will say AUDI the proper way.

Der AUDI R Acht (8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyMPs38NHhw


I had to play the clip few times as it is really nice and nostalgic, from old Auto Union race car to todays modern flagship.

EricSLine

That announcer is from Bayern or Austria (Innsbruck, perhaps). He wants to roll those R's sooooo bad!

You should hear how we Americans mess up Ikea!!

I didn't know we mispronounced Audi. I guess I've been living in Germany too long.

kleinbus

Eric, at least you live there so you are exposed to native language.

My English still suck's but it was horrible until I moved to States and got exposed to everyday English.

My German sucks as I never lived there permanently, I just passed by and used it once a while so it was more Auf weidersehen than Willkommen.

Ikea is good and another is Hiab, the knuckle boom crane brand.

Ikea is Ikea, not Aikei...

Hiab is Hiab, not Haiab....

Hiab is Swedish word, comes from Hydraulik Industrie Aktiebolag (LLC) and should be treated and pronounced as it is pronounced in Sweden.

flogsta

what a thread. just the right one to go into the weekend.

being from Germany this one makes me happy ;-)

A U D I...

70 years of preparation for the Audi R8.

EricSLine... not sure where you hear him roll the R. He is definitvely not from Austria ;-)

logastellus

Why not?

We say Munich, not München.

We say Moscow, not Moskva.

Just sayin'.

krftwrk

It is, actually, Latin-based, not German.

Either pronunciation is acceptable. I've heard Germans pronounce it both ways.

You should hear all the conversations regarding the pronunciation of "Mercedes", another German car company with a Latin-based name.

kleinbus

About the Mercedes,

The company that makes Mercedes brand passenger cars, vans, busses and trucks in Europe is not Mercedes Benz, Mercedes is the brand name and the company name is Daimler Benz by the 2 founders, Daimler and Benz.

Once I saw someone mentioning the Latin story but didn't pay much attention as long before that, I did read the history about the Daimler and Benz and found out that the Austrian investor Emil Jillinek daughters name being Mercédés (Girls name is Spanish origin) and how on early days Emil tuned up Daimler-Benz cars and raced under Mercedes pseudonym that referred to team and driver. Not like it is today referring to brand.


Tellus,

Yeah we can play this word game "impress me" with Scandinavian letters that American keyboards doesn't have. Sure there is more words like Konstantinkai and Nordlankai docks in Lübeck. But I just don't know how to twist those to English. I even have more Scandinavian letters like ä, ö, å but I'm missing the German double s sign that sure can be found from windows character map.


If you had lived next to Russia like I in Finland, you would know there is no MOSKVA in Russian language, During that 30 years I lived other side of the border and the 10 years I used to visit there, Moscow and Saint Petersburg ( Са́нкт-Петербу́рг ) that actually was Leningrad one upon a time.

Moskva is not English, it is more transliteration from Cyrillic to Latin letters so others would have a clue of names. Transliteration from Cyrillic to Latin is what it is as there is no International agreement among experts to use unified system.

I'm not from former Russia so I'm just "pissing into the wind" as I can't find enough info about how it is written in Cyrillic letters.

It is something like (I don't know does these letters show up at all)

Московский

Москвы

If I remember right, we have members here who speaks Russian so chirp in and put your spices into this bony soup we are cooking here

Old-Dog lives in Québec so he could teach us to deal the French words like Peugeot and Citroën made in France by PSA group, that is abbreviation from Peugeot Société Anonyme.

I threw my jalapenos to soup so au revoir...