Let's try this again...How people/places/things in our hobby are pronounced...

Ganahl, Freiburger,Toph?

 

Imp-pal-uh or Imp-pawl-uh?

 

I leave you idiots alone for a couple of hours and...

 

as Mr. Austin Powers once said "you put the em PHA sis on the wrong syl LA ble"

 

IM PAUL A Westcoast IM PALL A Eastcoast

 

tie ers or tars??
che ve or che be??
we uls or wills??
ta coe or tay coe??

 

The opposite of "above me" is "blow me."

 

Your right,..... they act

WHEE-TA-DID

Fon-ex-werked-fo-mee!

 

Another one: BFE = Bum-Fuck Egypt.

 

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a place, containing no phones, street signs, or people with teeth, incredibly frightening to be lost in, especially at 2:30 in the morning
We got lost in bum fuck PA for 3 hours Friday night.
What did you do?
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Also in the new days, as in like, now.... in French: Coupe is pronounced coop-ay.

 

"eldebrock" annoys the hell outta me. you even see it on craigslist.

i never knew how to say weiand until i saw a pic of the valve covers: "say why and". goes to show that when they started out noone knew how to pronounce their company's name.

 

In spite of what Gray Baskerville, and every other automotive journalist have thought for the last 50 years, my last name is NOT pronounced LOW!!!!!

 

if the french are saying it that way then its definitely wrong.

now ill be getting back to eating these freedom fries.

 

naw, must be a northern thing.

 

And in Southeast Texas it's em PILE uh



RustyPile

 

For what it's worth the Websters say impala is IM-PAL-A.

 

Holy shit Dean...I just noticed that....Dean Lovve

Hey you'd know. Pat Ganahl. How is his surname pronounced?

 

Bob K changed his name to "Three Wallet Larry" when he sild his cou-pay.

 

Ed-ELL-brock............not ELL-da-brock.......

 

Zydias............ZID---EE---US....... He told me!

 

I asked him in Detroit, teasing him about the Rides segment: "Since when did Tra-PAN-yer become 'Treppen-YAY'? He laughed and said it was French.

 

Even the Loughhead brothers got tired of folkls mis-pronouncing their name. They finally gave up and changed the spelling to match the annunciation...Lockheed, builders of the P-38 Lightning of WW2 and of course the famous SR-71 Blackbird, and many, many more great aircraft.

 

Along with those who say El-de-brock, just as annoying are those who say:

Gart-lits.

There's only one 'T' in Don's name and it's at the end. The man's name is GAR-lits.

 

Thanks for this tread....
I thought my question on PHAETON was a good one....
Maybe someone got stupid on it after the last time I looked at it, but I was at a loss for why it would be closed.

Seems so many people in this hobby love to jump all over someone when they get something wrong.... so what's wrong with a thread like this to educated those of us that learned from magazines and books and werent lucky enough to have dad's, friends, or brothers that were CAR GUYS??

 

I always thought Hemi was pronounced HEM-e, until I went to the Mopar Nats for the first time in 1990. Some folks from Slippery Rock Arkansas taught me it was pronounced HEE-Ma. As in "that thang got a HEE-Ma?"

 

we're now back up and running after a short commercial break...

 

HAHAHA it is hard to believe even when asked guys can't keep threads on topic. I find this thread very interesting thanks for getting it going again.

 

How about Louisville?

 

It's Pat Gan-awl......emphasis on the *awl*
.......as in Too Tall Ganahl.....

CB