Correct pronunciation of Dacia

JohnBoy26 · 08-03-2018 9:54pm

Bob_Marley wrote: »

From Peugeot to Renault to Lidl. We pronounce names how we like to, not necessarily as they are, and so what.

The Irish one's not correct at all according to my French sister in law. Same for Reno.
The UK are much closer to the correct pronunciation in both cases, but so what ?
The Irish Pew-Joe and Ren-Alt are here to stay.

Yawn

Bob_Marley · 08-03-2018 9:56pm

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

Yawn

Best you can do right enough.

Guy:Incognito · 08-03-2018 10:00pm

Bob_Marley wrote: »

From Peugeot to Renault to Lidl. We pronounce names how we like to, not necessarily as they are, and so what.

The Irish one's not correct at all according to my French sister in law. Same for Reno.
The UK are much closer to the correct pronunciation in both cases, but so what ?
The Irish Pew-Joe and Ren-Alt are here to stay.

I don't know anyone that says ren-alt. I've only ever heard people say ren-o. And I worked in 2 motor factors.

OldMrBrennan83 · 08-03-2018 10:04pm

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colm_mcm · 08-03-2018 11:18pm

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

I don't know anyone that says ren-alt. I've only ever heard people say ren-o. And I worked in 2 motor factors.

It used to be the norm in the late 80s into 90s

Bob_Marley · 08-03-2018 11:22pm

colm_mcm wrote: »

It used to be the norm in the late 80s into 90s

I wonder was that down to howda like them penny apples, did you know him ?

colm_mcm · 08-03-2018 11:34pm

Doctor Bill!

I remember advertising for Renaults back then like the R5 and they pronounced it correctly but anyone I knew bar one uncle who had one pronounced it ren-alt

That said, we pronounce the s in Paris so who cares!

OldMrBrennan83 · 08-03-2018 11:36pm

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colm_mcm · 08-03-2018 11:38pm

Patww79 wrote: »

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Some of Tom Dunnes best work!
That said he did a doctor bill album and it wasn’t great, don’t think it was gift grub related though.

Zonda999 · 10-03-2018 10:39pm

The funny thing about the pronunciations is that even the brand can use different pronunciations in different countries. Toyota UK market the Auris as the "OWWW-RIS" where as Toyota Ireland use "AWWW-RIS".

The ignorance of the "REN-AWLT" pronunciation always annoyed me to be honest, hearing one ad from them should clear that up for anyone surely.

OldMrBrennan83 · 10-03-2018 10:42pm

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Andy From Sligo · 10-03-2018 11:02pm

I say Ren - O and Paris

colm_mcm · 10-03-2018 11:18pm

Well to be fair, Auris is a made up name, where Renault is an actual fellas Surname. So if Louis Renault happened to be the president of France, and they were pronouncing his name as Renn Alt on RTÉ news - it would be called out.

Guy:Incognito · 12-03-2018 2:28am

Zonda999 wrote: »

The ignorance of the "REN-AWLT" pronunciation always annoyed me to be honest, hearing one ad from them should clear that up for anyone surely.

I've never heard an Audi ad with the aw-di pronunciation, but yet..................

Andy From Sligo · 12-03-2018 2:49am

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

I've never heard an Audi ad with the aw-di pronunciation, but yet..................

I pronounce AUDI as OW DEE ... er but then again I pronounce ALDI as ALL DEE too not AL DEE

colm_mcm · 12-03-2018 7:50am

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

I've never heard an Audi ad with the aw-di pronunciation, but yet..................

Yep, again back in the 80s / 90s, that’s how it was pronounced!

zilog_jones · 12-03-2018 10:39am

Zonda999 wrote: »

The ignorance of the "REN-AWLT" pronunciation always annoyed me to be honest, hearing one ad from them should clear that up for anyone surely.

As others have said, it's how it used to be marketed - it seemed normal to anglicise names back then. Nestlé used to be pronounced "nessel" in British (and probably Irish?) advertising until the 70s or 80s.

colm_mcm wrote: »

Well to be fair, Auris is a made up name...

Latin is made up now?

The "au" sound should be similar to that in "law" or "caught" - so I think Toyota Ireland got it right this time.

Back to the original topic, there are two correct ways of saying "Dacia" -
The Latin way: "day-see-a" or "day-sha"
The modern Romanian way: "dah-chi-a"
So Dacia Ireland are wrong on both counts.

And let's not get started on Hyundai - I'm no expert on Korean, but it sure as hell isn't "Hai-undai". There should only be two syllables there, and "y" is not a vowel sound in this case.

colm_mcm · 12-03-2018 10:42am

zilog_jones wrote: »

As others have said, it's how it used to be marketed - it seemed normal to anglicise names back then. Nestlé used to be pronounced "nessel" in British (and probably Irish?) advertising until the 70s or 80s.

Latin is made up now? The "au" sound should be similar to that in "law" or "caught" - so I think Toyota Ireland got it right this time.

Back to the original topic, there are two correct ways of saying "Dacia" -
The Latin way: "day-see-a" or "day-sha"
The modern Romanian way: "dah-chi-a"
So Dacia Ireland are wrong on both counts.

And let's not get started on Hyundai - I'm no expert on Korean, but it sure as hell isn't "Hai-undai". There should only be two syllables there, and "y" is not a vowel sound in this case.

Auris is made up from what I remember of the launch it comes from the word Aurum. That’s why the concept had lots of gold stuff that didn’t make production.