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Thread Author: L'escargot	Replies: 37

New Tue 12 Jun 12 06:10   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - L'escargot

In a recent TV advert they pronounce it Škodda, i.e. with a short o. I've always pronounced it with a long o. tinyurl.com/d53ysp3 But what do I know? I'm English. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 07:07   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - Londoner

The Czechs actually pronounce it as "Shkodda" don't they? I pronounce it E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-T. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Tue 12 Jun 12 07:48   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - Duncan

>> But what do I know? I'm English. >> With a name like L'escargot? I don't think so! ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 08:17   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - Dave_

When I had one I pronounced it as most English people would, i.e. starting with an "s" sound and rhyming with "loader". The service manager at the dealer pronounced the model name Oct- ahhh -vee- ah, which was a bit strange. I've heard a Ford salesman, who should know his stuff, refer to their smallest model as a Kay Eh, which is clearly wrong :) Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 09:07   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - Dog

Back in the early 70's my mate Bob reckoned Peugeot was pronounced Peggot :) Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 09:34   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - CGNorwich

Peggo surely - you don'y pronounce the T :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 09:49   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - Bromptonaut

>> Back in the early 70's my mate Bob reckoned Peugeot was pronounced Peggot :) Poojut or poojo were other varaints from the time. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 10:16   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - VxFan

>> Back in the early 70's my mate Bob reckoned Peugeot was pronounced Peggot :) I used to pronounce it pue gut Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 10:22   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - sooty123

In Scotland it's pronounced pue cho, isn't it? Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 10:44   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - Dog

>>I used to pronounce it pue gut<< Yeah, could have been that, 1973 is a long time ago, you're not Bob Ellis from Chadwell Heath are you :) Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 15:11   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - L'escargot

>> >> But what do I know? I'm English. >> >> >> >> With a name like L'escargot? Sacré bleu et zut alors! I've been here so long, and advancing age has dulled my memory so much, that I forgot where I came from originally. ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 09:43   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - John H

>> In a recent TV advert they pronounce it Škodda, i.e. with a short o. I've >> always pronounced it with a long o. tinyurl.com/d53ysp3 >> But what do I know? I'm English. >> English? Why have you linked to Laura K. Lawless then? Do you pronounce "garage" as demonstrated by her? www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/esl/pronunciation/a.html Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 10:00   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - Cliff Pope

Sh-coder I was told by my Czech father in law. But then I have been told by a Norwegian that ski is pronounced "she", by a Swiss that meusli is pronounced "miursley", and by a Turk that yoghurt is pronounced "yo-urt". Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 15:08   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - L'escargot

>> English? Sacré bleu et zut alors! I've been here so long I forgot where I came from originally. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 16:43   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - Dog

>>I've been here so long I forgot where I came from originally. Ah ha - La grenouille I presume! Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 17:11   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - L'escargot

>> Ah ha - La grenouille I presume! >> Merde alors! :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 09:57   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - CGNorwich

The pronunciation of foreign names in English is always a bit of minefield. I can remember when the French cities of Lyons and Marseilles were regularly pronounced Lions and Marsales but that would now seem uneducated. Nobody says Paree though (unless they are French) as that seems pretentious. In effect there are no rules although I would suggest the owner of a name is entitled to say how they would like it pronounced* *Except Dionne Warwick. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 10:04   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - Focusless

Didn't Nestle (accent on the last 'e' which I don't know how to type) used to be pronounced 'Nessulls'? I'm sure I remember at school in a brief flash of linguistic insight suggesting that it should be pronounced 'Nesslay' and being given strange looks, but the latter version eventually became the norm AFAIK. Last edited by: Focus on Tue 12 Jun 12 at 10:04 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 10:19   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - Dave_

My daughter's favourite hot-water-and-noodle based snack is pronounced in our house as Po No'eau de-lay. Pretentious, moi? :) Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 10:31   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - Cliff Pope

>> pronounced 'Nessulls'? I'm sure I remember at school >> I remember it as "Nessulls" too. But schoolboys then I think had an iconoclastic way of pronouncing words according to their own rigid conventions, often deliberately ignoring the way grown ups said things. I remember nougat as "nugget", liquorice as "lickerish", etc. All yummy things we assumed had been invented solely for our benefit. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 15:20   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - L'escargot

>> .... accent on the last 'e' which I don't know how to type .......... It's in Character Map. Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Character Map. I've copied it and then transferred the copy as an icon on my desktop. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 20:39   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - Bromptonaut

>> Didn't Nestle (accent on the last 'e' which I don't know how to type) used >> to be pronounced 'Nessulls'? I'm sure I remember at school in a brief flash of >> linguistic insight suggesting that it should be pronounced 'Nesslay' and being given strange looks, but >> the latter version eventually became the norm AFAIK. Yeah, as kid in the sixties it was nestles Milky Bar (the Milky Bars are on me!). Finlay J Macdonald's accounts of his childhood on the Hebridean island of Harris in the thirties contain regular references to 'nessuls' milk as consumer products reached even that remote corner of the UK. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 10:06   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - Dog

I tend to pronounce words as I see them, I had the ole woman in fits of laughter over the Jubilee weekend when I pronounced Pageant as page-ant :) Page is pronounced as in wage and ant is pronounced as in pant/rant - wots wrong with that then?? Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 10:13   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - RattleandSmoke

Skohdoh :). Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 10:42   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - devonite

Skoda, as in Soda, Jaguar as in jag you are - not as my Yank mate calls them Je-ag waaah Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 10:57   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - TeeCee

I lived in CZ for some time. "Shkodda", with a short "O" as in hot and a short "A" as in cat is correct. Occ-tah-vee-ah is also correct. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 12:13   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - Dutchie

Isn't Skoda owned by Volkswagen? I like this word Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft) Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 14:10   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - Rudedog

What about the big Swedish furniture store? I was told it's pronounced "ick-e-ah" as in 'stick', when ever I say it that way my kids wince and disown me! Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 15:37   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - Zero

Daewoo is now pronounced shev-row-lay How did that happen? Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 16:51   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - Armel Coussine

>> How did that happen? Something to do with capitalism I understand. Frightfully complicated stuff. :o} Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 17:50   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - Londoner

...and lets not forget the old chestnut: "ghoti" is pronounced as "fish" The ones that really crease me up though are Featherstone-Haugh ....as "Fanshaw" and Chalmondely as "Chumley" Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 18:55   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - PhilW

Defininely remember "Nessuls" Five Boys! And of course sauna is pronounced "sow-na" in Finland and VW is "Far-Vay" according to my Austrian friend (who has a Far Vay). - though if he was French I suppose it would be "vay-doobler-vay) Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 19:03   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - CGNorwich

"Defininely remember "Nessuls" Five Boys!" No you don't - it was Fry's ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 20:27   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - PhilW

Oops! Yep, Fry's Five boys - so obvious now you mention it!! What were Nessuls best sellers 50 years ago? Was it Milky Bar? Always remember a mate who had a Mars Bar to eat every morning break - thought he must be ever so rich since they cost about a tanner (6d). Most of us were on chews - 4 for a penny! Last edited by: PhilW on Tue 12 Jun 12 at 20:28 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 20:44   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - Avant

I think we're always going to be inconsistent: why, for example, do most of us pronounce Renault and Peugeot as French words, but not Citroën? I always say Volkswagen as the Germans do, but a lot of people don't - certainly not the Australian salesman who sold me my first Golf. I suspect that in just about every language other than English it's Octar-via and Far-bia, but somehow it trips off an English tongue much more easily to say Octavia as in Saviour and Fabia to rhyme with shabbier. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 21:04   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - Runfer D'Hills

>>just about every language other than English it's Octar-via and Far-bia I prefer oct-ah-via and fah-bia But then I roll my "r"s Don't ! Just Don't ! :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 12 Jun 12 23:51   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - Avant

Hrrrumph.... Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 13 Jun 12 00:04   Skoda - How do you pronounce Škoda? - Armel Coussine

>> why, for example, do most of us pronounce Renault and Peugeot as French words, but not Citroën? We don't really Avant. We tend to pronounce them Renno and Purge-oh. And Sitron is about equivalent. When an English-speaker pronounces commonly used names like that in an elaborately French manner I have difficulty keeping my kicking leg under control. It isn't necessary and it is a pain. Reply to this message | Report message