sf wrote:
> pennyaline wrote:
>> Which is my point precisely! You assumed I was talking solely about the
>> British-made car. But I wasn't. I wrote "jaguar." As we both pointed
>> out, Brits call it jag-yoo-ar, a pronunciation otherwise foreign to the
>> USian ear and used in the US by ex-pats or poseurs. In that vein, YES!
>> "Even the manufacturer" pronounces the name of the car jag-yoo-ar, as it
>> would since it is a British company. Show the car to the USian in the
>> street and ask him or her to tell you what it is, and you will likely
>> hear jag-waar or jag-wire. USian Jaguar owners will use US
>> pronunciation, unless they are, as covered before, hopelessly affected.
>>
>> But how do Brits pronounce the name of the Central and South American
>> wild cat? Ah ha! Just as I suspected! They say jag-yoo-ar! What does the
>> manufacturer call it, in this instance?!
>>
>> <in its *truly* native setting, it's a yaa-waar>
>
> FYI:
> The British don't own anything...
> BMW owns Bently and Ford owns Jaguar
> http://www.ford.com/en/company/about/brands/jaguar.htm
> which makes a 3 syllable pronounciation of that word just plain wrong!
>
>

Did I say the British "own" anything?

<not since they lost India, baby!>