I am when I say it. Tesco's, the shop belonging to Tesco.
Doesn't appiy to many other shops though but Marks & Spencer's, WHSmith's and Dorothy Perkin's spring to mind. Enough to make it perfectly valid.
Except that Dororthy Perkins is Perkins, and not Perkin.
Or Dotty Pees as I called it anyway.
C&A was always Cathy & Anne. Don't ask me why, I can't remember.
I always screw that one up. I usually pronounce it as 'ada-dee-dah-ss' (with ss as a belated afterthought), which embarrasses my son dreadfully.
Eh, I think it's a bit of both. soh-ne.
'soh' sounds a bit like sun, but not quite. It's a bit like how some people up north say 'bus'. Which is probably why soh-ne sounds like sunny to some ears. Edited: Just realised something - sonny is the nearest, but really, either way is fine. It's well known enough to handle any pronunciation, I'd say.
I think that the guy who set up the company named it after Sonny Boy.
Though, as previously mentioned, there are those who say
Jag-war
It's a South American cat but it's a British car. Since the British call the big cats Jag-u-ars I'll stick with them. Especially since Jon Gaunt goes with the other pronunciation and I'd hate to have anything in common with him.
How can anyone think Primark is pronounced Preemark?
Beats me too. I'd have thought it was taken from the words "prime" and "mark", to suggest that what they're selling is good. Prime mark (shortened to Primark) = Good brand or label.
Not strictly a mispronounciation but it annoys me when people talk about having to call the gas board, especially when I see it in newspaper articles. The gas board was abolished in the 70's.
How can anyone think Primark is pronounced Preemark?
The company used to have ads on TV in Northern Ireland back in the 80's which pronounced the company as Preemark so they obviously call themselves by that name at one stage....
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They were a client once, and apparently it rhymes with 'bonny'.
Except that Dororthy Perkins is Perkins, and not Perkin.
Or Dotty Pees as I called it anyway.
C&A was always Cathy & Anne. Don't ask me why, I can't remember.
That's how I pronounce it.
Yeah just realised that and edited my post.
There is Burton's though
I think that the guy who set up the company named it after Sonny Boy.
Glenmorangie. It is apparently as in the fruit. It was once a client of somewhere I worked.
It's Glenm-orange-ie and not Glen-mo-RAN-gie.
That's the correct German pronunciation.
That's how most people pronounce it where I'm from. Don't know if it's a Scottish thing or not but I rarely hear anyone pronounce it as Pry-mark.
Tri is pronounced Try. So where does the Pree come from?
P-rie-mark in Edinburgh.
I have no idea. I can't actually think of any similar examples. Edit - Prima donna?
Not Leedl?
Boze.
I'm from the rougher side of Scotland that might be why we pronounce it wrong
Beats me too. I'd have thought it was taken from the words "prime" and "mark", to suggest that what they're selling is good. Prime mark (shortened to Primark) = Good brand or label.
I thought that's how the person I quoted said it but just spelled differently? You are right though.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers the Primark Christmas ads...
I'm from Ballymena direction and some of the pronunciations for Peugeot I've heard are way too odd to even try to spell on here lol
Wiki didn't exist when I worked for them - this was back in the late 90's...
Not strictly a mispronounciation but it annoys me when people talk about having to call the gas board, especially when I see it in newspaper articles. The gas board was abolished in the 70's.
The company used to have ads on TV in Northern Ireland back in the 80's which pronounced the company as Preemark so they obviously call themselves by that name at one stage....
That's the Mexican pronunciation.
No I rhyme Lidl with middle.
There aren't any Lidl shops in Mexico? its the proper German one though