My pal, Samy, shared a link to a Business Insider video on Facebook, and I found it extremely useful. Hence, I’ve taken screenshots from the video about 15 brand names that people keep mispronouncing all the time. :) I find ‘Hermès’ particularly hard to pronounce, since the time I was told that there’s a certain nasal sound that has to be articulated, as with so many French words. I’ve almost been resigned to calling it the ‘H’ brand. And how about ‘Porsche’? Is it ‘Por-shay’ or ‘Porsh’? Turns out both are wrong. (@_@)
First up that brand whose name, if you mispronounce, will rhyme with herpes. One you get from having too much sex, the other from having too much money. Or, it could be the other way round, I’m not sure. :D
I have no problems with pronouncing ‘Adidas’. You?
Never even heard of this next one before. Apparently, it’s one of the top pharmaceutical companies in the world. The company mainly manufactures prescription medicines for diabetes, HIV, hypertension, stroke, etc…
Fage is a Greek dairy company, and on their facebook page with over 1.3million fans is this description: “FAGE (pronounced “fa-yeh”) is known for FAGE Total, all natural Greek strained yogurt.”
And some more-familiar brand names:
This next one is a “yoga-inspired athletic apparel company”… lulu-lemon :D
And a couple more that you might be familiar with…
And for the record, it’s por-sha, not porsh or por-shay. :D #NowWeKnow
And what about words like “esplanade”, ‘clemenceau”, “reservoir”, etc that Singaporeans tend to struggle with? Well, that’s a blogpost for another time. ;)
