Jeremy Clarkson Forum

[Billymaze]

Jeremy you're a legend........however there is one utterly annoying and mind boggling thing that annoys me to distraction every time you do it (actually I don't lose too much sleep over it). For someone who thinks that the earth, sun, moon and stars revolve around England and that all other nationalities are inferior and should walk at least 15 paces behind any English person on the street and only raise their heads when spoken to, you have a dreadful habit of mispronouncing the words "Volkswagen" and "Peugeot"

You have an obvious dislike for the German race as a whole (totally understandable) but you constantly pronounce the car manufacturers name as though it has two V's in it which gives the impression that your fathers name is Helmut, your mothers name is Eidelweiss and that you went to school in skintight shorts with braces, white socks stretched up past your knees and you saluted all your teachers at 5.30am when class started. When pronounced by an english native speaker the word should be pronounced with a normal, every day, very popular "W". As in www. or wagon, wheelie, wind, whine or any other bloody word that contains the afformentioned letter. You, on the other hand, pronounce it like some twit from the cotswalds who's just back from the Porsche factory in Stuttgart on a weekend trip and on his return he suddenly decides that he's going to let the whole of the UK know where he's been for the weekend by copying the "German" way of saying it!!!!! The word is VolksWagen not VolksVagen.

Now to the word "Peugeot". Will you please explain to me where the letter "R" is placed in that word? I'm afraid you are not alone in this mispronouncing this word. Your whole bloody nation does it!!!! I am involved in the motor trade and on many occasions I deal in the UK. Every time I speak to people in the UK about a "peugeot" I wish I could stretch the telephone reciever across the Irish sea and bash the offender around the ears until they pronounce the bloody word properly!!! IT IS PEUGEOT NOT PEURGEOT!!!! Even the bloody french don't pronounce the word as though it has an "R" in it, and they invented the word, spent a hundred years branding the name, built the cars and exported them all over the world!!! I'd like to know where along the way some Brit who was bored out of his skull, broken down in his Rover or Vauxhall, on the hard shoulder of the M6 decided to put an "R" in the bloody word "Peugeot"????

Anyway, now that I got that off my chest I shall continue my day in the luxury of knowing that unless I run into some british people (wonderful race) I won't have to clean my ears out for wrong pronunciations rattling around my drums!!!

Regards and keep the good work up, Billy.

[welshwizard]

My dad pronounces Audi as oode.

[Russ]

My dad pronounces Audi as oode.

Never argue with a Welshman about pronunciation. They will wheel out half a dozen place names and you will loose!

[Doctor Houx]

"Caravan" is pronounced:

"Get off the road you selfish ignorant b*&@£%d"

Which sound extremely similar to "Tesco Lorry"