If you have ever been called out on pronouncing a luxury car brand's name incorrectly, you are not alone. According to a survey of UK motorists, almost 95 percent of people pronounce the name of car manufacturer BMW wrong.?
BMW is one of the easier ones, right? Well, apparently not. Since it is three letters, people automatically assume that it would have the English version of those three letters. However, since it is a German car, that is not the case.?
It's actually pronounced 'bee em vee' rather than 'bee em double yoo'.
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Our non-German lives have been a lie? Looks like it.
The research was performed at Select Car Leasing. They discovered the correct way the names of 10 car brands should be pronounced and then asked 1,000 motorists to answer them.?
Turns out not a single person knew how to correctly pronounce every single of the car brands. 95 percent of the got the BMW pronunciation wrong.?
Mark Tongue, director of Select Car Leasing, said: "For all the exposure that car manufacturers are subjected to in the digital age, there's still a gap in understanding when it comes to how they're pronounced."
"Many of them have become household names across the globe, but according to our research, that doesn't make mispronunciations any less likely."
"We've found that even the automotive stars are being caught out, with Jeremy Clarkson and James May mispronouncing the likes of Koenigsegg and Dacia for years.?Our survey reveals the car brands that are most confused and, for the avoidance of any doubt, the proper pronunciations via professional, regional voice actors," added Tongue.
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