Excusez-moi!
UrsaBear sent out a circular today on culture in our Spam-Of-The-Day mailing list and a small section of it details how French brands are usually mispronounced so horribly, I decided to do another rant on the matter. Yes, another. You may read the previous rant here.
While we know the French market their language as the ‘Language of Love’ (only because its considered one of the ‘Romance’ languages) but we all know its BS so it usually helps if you act like the French do when you speak it – as arrogant poseurs, like you own the world.
So for the last time folks:-
Carrefour-(the French hypermarket chain) is pronounced /gah-fu/ due to the fact that in French, 'CARRE' is pronounced /gah/. Remember to use a very soft ‘G’ sound. The next person that says “I want to go to care-4” to me will need to be ‘cared for’ in the emergency ward.
Peugeot-is pronounced /purr-jho/ due to the fact that the 'T' is silent and 'PEU' is pronounced /pur/.
The next time I hear some fool tell me that the “pew-jot is a nice car” will get run over with said car.
I swear. VROOM VROOM!
Renault-is pronounced /ren-no/. Again note the silent 'T'. You'd think with this car manufacturer doing so well in the F1 people would know how to pronounce this by now. I have a crate Molotov cocktails waiting in my car to bomb the radio station announcers who mangle this.
Citroen-is pronounced /cee-thro-en/ and this is one of the few exception in French that is actually more or less phonetic. Next person who says "zee-tron" to me will get exactly that stuffed up their arses, because a 'zitron' is a lemon. Bend over.
And for crying out loud, please at least try to say Thierry Henry's name right. Please. That man is a football legend. Even if he’s leaving Arsenal for FC-Barcelona-(which makes no difference to me as I support both teams) please stop mangling his name. Its pronounced /teary on-ray/. Please. Have mercy on my poor ears.
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Sorry for the lack of posts folks, I’ve been on another reading kick (yes I know reading Harry Potter 1-6 over and over and over again doesn’t quite count as ‘reading’ but book 7 comes out this weekend and my life will then officially be over so please, how about some understanding) and I’m also up to my eyeballs in wedding plans (yes I’m getting married) but more on that later. I promise.
