No one says "Dodd Gee" when saying "Dodge". I do not correct anyone on the pronunciation of Porsche, unless they ask.

This thread makes me think of my time working at a grocery store in a small town, we were instructed to be nice, kind, and never insult the customers.

An older lady from way up northeast with a heavy northeast accent came in asking for "bah-lee", I asked "what?" she said louder "BAH-LEE", I said "bah-lee?", she said "YES BAH-LEE!!". Confused and a little frustrated, I said "what do you do with it?". She said "YA KNOW BAH-LEE DONTCHA? YA PUT IT IN SOUP" Realizing she wanted barley, I said "oh yea bah-lee" and showed her where the barley was.

Sometimes it's not what you say, it's how you say it.

Shee-a vs. Shay

It's a name. It sure is nice when it's pronounced properly. Why not?

I might add a bit of narcissim as to why it would not be important.

So 914 teener, when a stranger comes up to you and says, "Wow, that's a beautiful Porsch", do you correct them? What if it were a family member? Really?

If you were taking a trip to Italy, would you tell people you are flying into Roma? If you say Rome, you'd be wrong, then you're a narcissist? Really?

I'd say "Thanks!" with no correction.

(if it were a family member, they'd obviously pronounce it properly)

When in Rome (Roma)...

Different languages have different pronunciations for the same word. I would think that's universal. I think that's how Porsche developed as a single syllable word in American English. But, having had the opportunity to have lunch with Hans Peter, I'm sure he would appreciate his name being pronounced properly.

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Agree Eric. We, as Porsche owners, should pronounce it correctly, but there are times when I'm talking fast, I shorten it. It the end, it never bothered me, when someone says Porsch, maybe by the fact that they guessed the marque accurately if it were a stranger. I'm just a bit surprised that some people care much more than that.

Though a bit taller, Hans Peter is looking more and more like his father as he ages...

So you prefer "Shee-a"? kind of name is Shee-a? Is that Arabic?

Most people here in eastern Massachusetts say Porsh. I have always said Porsh to myself, probably because that's what I heard growing up, but say Porsh-a when talking to others about the car. I do not correct others about their pronunciation unless they ask me specifically.

This one makes me giggle a bit, Linde is my welding gas supplier, German owned multinational company.
They answer the phones as Lind, not Lyn-da or Lyn-dee.

http://www.lindecanada.com/en/index.html

Actually they say Lind Canada.

The e at the end of Linde is actually pronounced exactly the same way the e at the end of Porsche is pronounced ...


PS: Linde is a tree, one that can grow quite big and can live well over 1000 years.

Does it feel pretentious to say "Folksvahgen" instead of Volkswagen?.

I think this porsh-uh vs Porsh issue only exists because we're so passionate about these cars and value their precision...so we want to honor them with their native pronunciation. The fact is that very few foreign names are honored in English. Even Mercedes-Benz is mispronounced as "mer-say-deez" instead of "mer-said-ess"

Porsche or Porsche? Personally, I use both.

I'm hungry. Can someone help me order a gyro?
Just went through an ordeal trying to get our voiceover guy to correctly pronounce "Marmot" for a marketing video.
Makes Porsche seem straightforward.

ha! don't forget the tah-ziki sauce!

Tza-ziki

I just want to know if it's "She-Ah" or "Shay", that's much more important to me

Chevrolet.

My last name is Lambert. Here in the states everyone, including myself says Lam bert, overseas, especially in France it's pronounced Lam ber. If people around the world want to pay me over $14,000 profit on every unit I sell, they can pronounce it any way they wish and I'll be happy.

Ex-father in law in S. Oregon called Mitsubishis, Mitsu-bitchies. Maybe he was on to something.

Shay like the stadium (for those who remember what that is). For the younger crowd, Shea like the "butter". Shea Butter... you can now go poke out your minds eye!

Porsche actually made a video on how to say it. 1.3 million views and counting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im2eYuGdmfY

Hence the story.

To be fair, those girls were tasked with making sure we spoke proper German for the customers...

And that proves how much Porsche cares about the pronunciation of Porsche. So get it right or Ferry will strike you down from above

I said Porsh until I was old enough to know better (~16 years old)...tougher to figure out in the days before internet/youtube etc.

Now I say it the correct way

I thought so, minds eye sufficiently poked.

Funny thing is I had a guy on the phone once that pronounced your name "She-Ah"

And its pronounced "Erc"

Zach

The only version of it that really grates my nerves is Matt LeBlanc’s “Pawsh” that he utters too often on Top Gear.

He must be from Boston

Whenever someone asks about my car, I just say that it's a 914. Pretty straightforward to me. That way I don't have to explain why it's a "Porsha" not a Volkswagen.

I don't care as long as they don't paint it with Thompson's water seal

I pronounce it the way Dr. Porsche said it, IDGARA how other pronounce it.

So, is it Keel or Kile?

Ditto

At one point, now a number of years ago, the official position of PCNA was:

The company name can be pronounced "Porsh" or "Porsh-uh", however you like it. Especially if you're buying one.

The family name, however, is "Porsh-uh".

--DD

Funny for some reason I just saw this. It's Keel

The real German pronunciation is more like Porsch-eh.

Konrad

100% right.

So this well to do guy gets a knock on his door from a guy that was down and out and was asked if he had any work for the guy so he could make a few bucks.

The homeowner says: 'sure, I'll give you $300 to paint the porch.' Then shows him the paint and the brushes.

He comes back at the end of the day and the guy is waiting for him at the end of the driveway.

The guy greets him warmly and excited about his job well done and says: 'Man I painted all day, but I couldn't find a Porsche, so I painted the Ferrari instead!"

Careful around the purists and keyboard warriors. They will crusify you if you mispronounce it

So how do you pronounce porsh if you have more than one

In New Mexico we have the front porsh and the back porsh and drive Carmen garcias

On the keyboard how would one know how you pronounce it?

I can't help it. I may think Porsh uh but being a Damn Hoosier it just comes out the other way LOL

It isn't. Making an effort to pronounce someone's name correctly is just polite.

OK, that's what I thought.

being a total snob and a hole I always correct the Porch people by saying, I'm sorry, it's properly pronounced Porker. Don't Fuch it up.

KrazyKonrad has the closest way a non-german speaking person would pronounce Porsche. In the German language, the "e" at the end of a word or name is not silent. It has 2 syllables and is pronounced "Porsch-eh". Any one that owns a Porsche should know how to pronounce it. Everyone else, praise them for knowing what a "Porsch" is.

Eh? So Canada had it right all along, eh?... Eh?... EH?

As my English professor used to say, languages are nothing but sounds with rules....and they dictate pronunciation. Do you say "Noter Dame" or "No-tra Dahm"? "Porto Rico" or "Pwerto Rico?" Words and phrases, just like voices, have accents. Since "che" in English has a silent "e", saying "Porsh" is playing by the "rules" of the language. Yes, family names can be viewed as exceptions, but most people immersed in a language accept the adaptation (Shwartzenegger vs. schvahrtznegger). It's always funny to hear a newscaster speaking English and then jumping to a foreign accent when they say their names. And I can see how it sounds elitist to use a German accent when saying Porsche, but not when pronouncing other foreign names (Fer-Rahr-ree instead of Feh-rahhhh-ri). Personally, I use porsh around laypeople, and porscheh around fellow aficionados...since groups of people and clubs with similar interests have their own language rules....and pronouncing Ferdinand's family name with a German accent is one of them.

Wow. I finally got to use all that linguistics theory from college

And Baba booey to y'all!

Newscasters are idiots. They try to come off as worldly and intellectual, when all they are doing is reading a script. By the way, the German "sch" is the equivalent English "sh", as in "scheise" and "sh**". At least everyone is getting that part right.

I have several south Asian and middle eastern customers who are 2nd generation Canadian, all of them go by nicknames or short forms.

This includes my Doctor who tells his clients to call him his short form for his first name, with or without doctor in front of it.
They don't care.

"How do you spell your name?"
"Nahasapeemapetalan"
"How do you pronounce it?"
"Bob."