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

Vaseline in German

Veinerslider

 

I always thought it was en-der-lee...

 

Next door neighbor from Queens NY Coil = kerl Oil = Earl ..
Buddy Neville from UK say JEG YOO AHHR > jaguar .. garage = Gair idge
>> Myself Milodon = Mill-OH-DIN
Weiand = WAY-IND
Offenhauser = AWF-IN HOWzer
Edelbrock = EDILBRAHHHK
pontiac = PAHN-TEEEEE - AK
Crower = CRAhhWHurr
Coupe DeVIlle = KOOP - Dah - Vihl

 

I can't afford a speech therapist so I usually use hand gestures.

 

U.K. slang for 'cigarette'.............Fag

E.G.
"I'm sitting reading this thread with a fag in my mouth".

 

Wow! ... this thread is back up? ... I tried to post in it on Tuesday AM and it got closed while I was typing my reply.

Anyway ...

Brizio is pronounced Briz-E-Oh, not Bree-Zee-Oh (like Cami Edelbrock pronounces it in the "Topless" episode of RIDES)

... and it's "The Hirohata (Heer-Oh-Hah-Tah) Merc", not "The Hirohita (Heer-Oh-Hee-Tah) Merc".

 

Houdaille (as in lever shock absorbers)? ... I've seen this name in car magazines for as long as I can remember, but I don't recall ever hearing the word. Pronunciation please, and thank you.

 

billsill45 ... Like comedian Steve Martin used to say: "Those French, they have a different word for everything" ... My French sucks, but I believe it's pronounced "WHO-DYE".

UPDATE: Google is my friend ... according to this 1930 Ad, it's pronounced "HOO-DYE":



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We say How-in-dale, don't know if its rite tho!

 

Ahh, one of the all-time great movie moments.

"No, no no! Fa-La-La-La! Now start again!"

"Deck the harrs with barrs of hahrry, fa-ra-ra-ra-ra, ra-ra-ra-ra..."

 

Read this somewhere but can't remember where.I think it was either
WHO-DIE
or
OOO-DIE
Not 100% certain though!

 

What's the difference between a Porsche and a porcupine? The porcupine has the pricks on the outside....

 

I thought it was 'bobble ed' lmao...

 

Ten pages worth, but some really good laughs (laffs) from it!
Thanks!

 

Spokane is correctly pronounced Spocan..... This error does make it easy to spot the tourists however.

 

"Mater...like Tomater without the tu."

 

Any medical procedure that my buddies or co-workers go in for is automatically called an "add-a-dick-ta-me"

 

Thames... Tims

Who's Tim buddy? It's my panel...

 

ute

Yoot?
OO-tay?
You-tay?

 

Thames is pronounced Temms. As in the big river that flows through London.

Ute - Yoot as in Utility Yoot - illitty

Bear in mind Aussies and Limeys pronounce their "t"'s. Yoo Tilly Tee

 

London's big river is pronounced alot of ways over here but the panels will likely always be Th-ames to most of us yanks. English varys every couple blocks in some areas... So how about Anglia? An-glee-ah?... people also say An-ga-la or add/remove various other letter sounds.

 

Pretty sure we Americans pronouce both "t", too.

 

An-glee-ah.
I was in an american junk yard (NJ) and wanted a front drum for a Pontiac.
Pon-tee-yack I was saying, fellow couldn't understand me, but Ponny-ack went down well.
That's what I was trying to say about pronouncing the "t"'s.

It's all good..It's the little differences that makes life and people interesting.

Mart. (with the "t" pronounced - MarT.) LOL

 

Houdaille... Who-dowel , thats how I always said it. Used to be a parts house in uptown Charlotte called Carolina Houdaille , so the word has always bugged me. Its probably a futile effort to get anybody from down south to say anything right, because if we cant say the word right, we will just make something up.

 

What about the english and their alumminium. Whats up with that. By the way, its Lo-buc-rod not lo-bo-crud.

 

ive never heard it called that

 

DOUGHNUT;a small sweetened fried cake of dough(from the oxford english dictionary.)

TUDOR. so is it pronounced 2door(as i do) or chewder as the rest of england does(well a lot of em)

 

That's the mid-east coast pronunciation. I grew up in DC, and my dad and both of my grandfathers who were born and raised in DC pronounced it "Warshington DC"...

 

and don't forget "traileredcarssuck" = trailer ed, cars suck.

ha ha.