How you pronounce "Seat Leon"
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I ordered my new Leon this morning and the guys at the showroom, pronounced it "Sea-at Lee-on"
Yeah, all the car salesmen I've met are dynamite linguistically..
If this is sarcasm I am sensing, I love the generalisation and irony here
I choose to say "see-at lee-on" because "say-at lay-on" sounds pretentious.
I think its just personal preference nothing wrong with either pronunciation.
I think its just personal preference nothing wrong with either pronunciation.
No, I don't care how other people pronounce words either, life is too short, but technically, one of them is wrong.
If the car is named after a city then there is a correct way to say the name of the city. If a Scottish car company decided to call a car the 'Dundee' pronouncing it Dune-day would be wrong.
Yes I understand that the origin or inspiration for the name of the car was a city. However, I don't agree that the pronunciation has to be strictly the same as the city. The pronunciation is subjective and will vary from Country to Country.
Not really. People in other countries will pronounce the name differently because they don't know how it should be pronounced, but if they are wrong they are wrong. Remaining in isolation, they may beleive themselves to be right but anyone from the country in question knows they are deluded.
Just try coming to Scotland and pronouncing Edinburgh the way you might think it would be pronounced if you didn't know! You'd look like an idiot ;0)
I see what you mean. But if someone came to Kent and pronounced a normal word, road or town differently to me I wouldn't think they were stupid tbh.
Lots of people pronounce names of Countries and places differently to natives which strengthens my argument further.
The wide range of accents in the UK alone would mean that we all say things slightly differently, whether it's a normal everyday word, brand, place or whatever.
No, but they would be ignorant of the correct pronunciation?
Of course, the 'correct' pronunciation will change over the years. If we went back a hundred years I reckon we'd all be surprised by the differences in pronunciation of even common words.
They might well be ignorant to the pronunciation expected and used by natives but wouldn't be wrong as it's subjective
What I am trying to say is that even though a native may pronounce a city or place in a certain way it does not make it correct.
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I agree, but I think they're more likely to be right than someone from another country who's just guessing! ;0) I also think they have more right to decide how the word should be pronounced, as it's kinda their word.
That could well be right but it depends where the word originates from and the language it's derived from originally. I am not sure that a native would have exclusive rights on how the pronunciation should be.
For example a Spanish native would pronounce Ibiza differently to an Englishman or American. Similarly an Englishman would pronounce certain Welsh towns differently to a Welshman much to their annoyance.
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