Let's talk about cars
Oct 15th 2013, 7:52 pm
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Re: Let's talk about cars
Most of the time, yes.
French pronunciation is quite inconsistent here. Locally we have a city called Des Plaines (pronounced as if it was short for 'Desmond Planes'), yet Des Moines is pronounced correctly.
Using the coupé argument though, everyone in East London would call them 'coops' and everyone in America would go to a 'caff' for their lunch.
No, you shouldn't. Ever.
French pronunciation is quite inconsistent here. Locally we have a city called Des Plaines (pronounced as if it was short for 'Desmond Planes'), yet Des Moines is pronounced correctly.
Using the coupé argument though, everyone in East London would call them 'coops' and everyone in America would go to a 'caff' for their lunch.
No, you shouldn't. Ever.
Oct 15th 2013, 7:58 pm
#812
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Re: Let's talk about cars
Most people around here are Germans or Polaks.
Oct 15th 2013, 8:04 pm
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Re: Let's talk about cars
Oct 15th 2013, 8:32 pm
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Even though I live in a region of the US that was originally settled by the French and there are French placenames (or French versions of original Indian names) everywhere - I have yet to meet a single person with a French name
Most people around here are Germans or Polaks.
Most people around here are Germans or Polaks.
BTW, I wonder why Mini call their car a barrelmaker.
Oct 15th 2013, 8:39 pm
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Re: Let's talk about cars
I live in an area where Spanish place names are not pronounced like they are in Spanish. "Los Angeles" is exhibit number one. Here is a recent L.A. Times article about my neighborhood.
BTW, I wonder why Mini call their car a barrelmaker.
BTW, I wonder why Mini call their car a barrelmaker.
No idea on the Mini though.
Oct 15th 2013, 9:10 pm
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Re: Let's talk about cars
John Cooper, probably the most famous racing car driver/designer/ engineer anyone has ever/ never heard of! 
Thanks to BMW, which revived the "Cooper" name used on the tuned-up Austin Minis of the 1960's and 70's, he is now famous, though paradoxically, very few people actually know who he was; in many respects Britain's answer to Carroll Shelby. 
Who was John Cooper?
Thanks to BMW, which revived the "Cooper" name used on the tuned-up Austin Minis of the 1960's and 70's, he is now famous, though paradoxically, very few people actually know who he was; in many respects Britain's answer to Carroll Shelby. Who was John Cooper?
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Oct 15th 2013, 9:26 pm
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Re: Let's talk about cars
John Cooper, probably the most famous racing car driver/designer/ engineer anyone has ever/ never heard of! Thanks to BMW, which revived the "Cooper" name used on the tuned-up Austin Minis of the 1960's and 70's, he is now famous, though paradoxically, very few people actually know who he was; in many respects Britain's answer to Carroll Shelby.
Who was John Cooper?
Thanks to BMW, which revived the "Cooper" name used on the tuned-up Austin Minis of the 1960's and 70's, he is now famous, though paradoxically, very few people actually know who he was; in many respects Britain's answer to Carroll Shelby. Who was John Cooper?
Oct 15th 2013, 9:34 pm
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Re: Let's talk about cars
Oct 15th 2013, 9:46 pm
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Re: Let's talk about cars
But ask the general public and I'll bet not many know either of them 
CC wasn't an overly pleasant chap you know
Too obsessed with the car and not the drivers.
But yeah, I guess JC would have been happier to have recognition for what he did rather than a badge on a BMW.
CC wasn't an overly pleasant chap you know
Too obsessed with the car and not the drivers.But yeah, I guess JC would have been happier to have recognition for what he did rather than a badge on a BMW.
Oct 15th 2013, 10:26 pm
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Oct 15th 2013, 11:38 pm
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