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Old 06-18-2008, 01:43 AM
seemoe seemoe is offline
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Originally Posted by wikipedia
Porsche, a German proper name, is correctly pronounced PORSH-eh.

Some tend to over-vocalize the e, which results in Por-SCHA. Others mistakenly treat the e as silent, a pronunciation rule that applies to most words in English and French, but not in German, producing the monosyllabic porsh. The most common pronunciation used in the United States is porsh.

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