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Examples of brand names which have proved unsuitable for use in most English-speaking countries have included: [3] Alu-Fanny, a French aluminium foil; Barf, a laundry detergent from Iran's Paxan industries; Barfy, a brand of frozen hamburgers in Argentina; Bimbo, a Mexican brand of bread; Calpis, a Japanese soft drink; Crapsy Fruit, a French ...
The z in the Spanish word chorizo is sometimes realized as / t s / by English speakers, reflecting more closely the pronunciation of the double letter zz in Italian and Italian loanwords in English. This is not the pronunciation of present-day Spanish, however. Rather, the z in chorizo represents or (depending on dialect) in Spanish.
This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.
That apostrophe you see on the O of Irish surnames is an Anglicization of a “síneadh fada,” an acute accent slanting to the right. A fada above a vowel means the vowel should be pronounced ...
Name Country Acoustic Research: United States Advent: United States Ahuja: India Alesis: United States Altec Lansing: United States Amphion Loudspeakers: Finland Anker: China Armstrong Audio: United Kingdom ATC: United Kingdom Audiovox: United States Audison: Italy Auro-3D: Belgium Bang & Olufsen: Denmark Barefoot Sound: United States BassBoss ...
The name of the French soft drink Pschitt is merely an onomatopoeic rendition of the sound made when the bottle is opened, but the -sch-and terminal -tt are German, rather than French, clusters. A premium-priced ice cream made by a company based in Bronx, New York was dubbed Häagen-Dazs to imply "old world craftsmanship and tradition".
Katie Garapic realized she may be mispronouncing her Croatian last name while watching the Olympics. Athletes from the neighboring Serbia spelled their names "-ić," which implies a "-ch" sound at ...
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