Porsh or Porsh-a?, Be honest, what is it to you? Options

[McLovin]

OK, so after 30+ years of lusting after Porsches, I finally got one.

Despite years of dreaming about them, putting them off because it wasn't time yet, and reading all kinds of literature on them, in my mind, I pronounced it "Porsh". Not "Porsh-uh". Just "Porsh". Many times I heard the words in my head...."McLovin? You need to get you a Porsh".

And here's the thing. I took three years of German in High School and even went to the Porsche Museum once on a trip to Germany.

So now, I'm learning that it's properly pronounced "Porsh-uh", and I'm a Rube, a Heyseed, a backwards individual if I call it a "Porsh". But after 30 years, and now car ownership, I'm having trouble saying "Porsh-uh".

So how do you say it? You know, to yourself. Not out loud?

Porsh or Porsh-uh?

[Mark Henry]

I'll never understand why some people get bent out of shape about it. English speaking people are taught from the time they start to read that an E on the end is silent.
Hard to break old habits. I always heard porsch since I was a kid, I know how to pronounce it correctly, but porsch still slips out now and again.
I've never corrected a customer and I never will.
If you only told them the E isn't silent they would start calling it a porschie.

BTW Andy did you have perfect command of the English language when you were learning it?
I have a french friend that calls me Henri (Are-ree) all the time, I don't even notice anymore.
And I certainly don't get upset about it.