12 Brands YOU pronounce INCORRECTLY
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Hello everyone and welcome back to English with Lucy
you’ve read the title.
Today, I am going to tell you 10 faction designer the names
that you, yes you, pronouncing incorrectly.
And I bet, you come here like, oh yeah, let’s see, let’s see, what a British Girl!
with missing finger nails is gonna accuse me of.
Wow, you might surprise this sound
because I surprise myself. What did we said in this video.
I am by no means a faction expert
I am, however, extremely interested in pronounciation.
And I know a lot of, you guys, are as well sound like you know, like you’re talking about.
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Now, the first one is this one, Hermés. Heyyy…
What a Gorgeous brand, and I always always wanted one of their fancy belts.
I’ve never been able to justify one those.
This one, I used to pronounce that “HƠ-MEI-S”.
But upon doing my research, I found out that It should be pronounced, “E-MES”, “E-MES”.
“E-MES”
Not because it’s a French designer and the “H” is silent.
The next one,“ADIDAS” this one, oh my god, I’ve heard so many variations for the pronounciation.
And this brand
I’ll give you a clue, the founder of the brand which is called “Adolph Dassler”
“Adolph Dassler”
And nick name was “A-DI”
So brand is an fusion of his nick name and his surname.
his nick name-ADI, and his surname is DAS => ADIDAS.
I sometimes hear /a’dides/ or /adi’das/ or /a’di’das/
But yeah, it should be /‘adidas/.
The next one, another French one, one I am likely to butcher
It is what I would originally called “BALMAN”.
But it should actually be pronouced /Bou mân/, /Bou mân/
The Frenchies don’t like pronouncing the end the “N” of words.
/Bou-ma/, /Bou-ma/. I think I need a France lesson.
Then we have this one, “LOEWE”.
Like many of you, I imagine, I looked at this and I thought /LOU/
I thought it was gonna be called /LOU/. But it’s not
It’s the Spanish brand and that “W” is actually pronounced “V”
So it is /LU-E-VI/ , /LU-‘E-VI/, /LU-E-‘VI/, /LU-E-VI/.
That’s a sexy word.
The next one “MOCHINO”. It is not /MƠ-SHI-NOU/
It is not /MƠ-SHI-NOU/. It is actually pronounced /MÔ-SKI:-NOU/ , /MÔ-SKI:-NOU/.
which is, because, it is an Italian brand and anything with “SCH”, I say “SKI:”, “SKI:”, /MÔ-SKI:-NOU/.
There are something on my floor, “VERSACE”. It’s /VỜ-SÁ-SI/
Actually, it’s not a /VỜ-SÁ-SI/.
It is an Italian word and it should be /VỜ-SHÁ-SI/
/VỜ-SHÁ-SI/
The next one “NIKE”.
It’s not /NAIK/. It is /NAI-KÌ/
The next one is “THIERRY MUGLER”.
And it’s more /THÌ-E-LÝ MU-G-LỜ/.
We will so have “SAINT LAURENT”. Instead of /SAN-LO-RONG/…/SA-LO/
/SA-LOW-ONT/. Now the difficulty with this is the French “R”
The French “R” sounds which is the /HƠ/,/HƠ/, from the back and I find very difficult to produce.
We also have one that is a really really common limit pronounce in the UK.
And the reason we know we mispronounce it, it’s because the phrase word that is in French.
And it should be “RALPH LAUREN”=> /ROU-‘FLO-RANT/.
But we for some reason pronounce it /ROU-‘FLO-RENT/
Another difficult one is “GIVENCHY”.
/GI-VONG-SHI/.
Oh, that is a tongue twister.
Now, the next one, it’s not a fashion brand. But it is a luxury item.
And it is “PORSCHE”. We would call in the UK /‘PO:-SH/
But it is actually called with 2 syllable, it should be /‘PU-SHO/.
And I test with my boyfriend, who’s really into cars and he said /‘PO-SH/ as well.
When it should be /‘PO-SHO/. So yeah, really common mistake.
But bear that on in mind. That’s it for today video, I hope you like it and I hope you learn something.
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