2006-10-06 03:37:45 · 14 answers · asked by Siobhan O 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Makes ➔ Peugeot
Actually its Perjhoe. French.
2006-10-06 03:44:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because some people can't pronounce names properly, it's a bit like Michelin, it's pronounced meeshilahn, not mitchelin, wheres the "T"??? Or Audi is pronounced Ahwdi not owdi. I do know how spell incidentally, I'm typing phonetically! My Grandad used to pronounce it pewjit!
2006-10-06 15:04:25 · answer #2 · answered by Alf Garnet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let me ask you this:
Do you sah Shev-roh-lay or Chev-row-let?
They're foreign words and therefore have different pronunciations.
(The founder of General Motors, William Durant, hired Louis Chevrolet, a Swiss mechanic, in 1911.)
2006-10-06 22:53:56 · answer #3 · answered by auriform 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the car is french. the word "peu" in french (meaning "little" or "few") is pronounced like "per" in english (eg. "PERsia").
geot ought then to be pronounced "ge" as in "gem" and "ot" as in "aw" in english.
to say PEWgeot is rather far-fetched, what would be the logical explanation for that?
I've never heard anyone pronounce it like that but might giggle a bit!
2006-10-06 10:50:37 · answer #4 · answered by Wisdom 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a french family name, from Mulhouse I think.
It should be pronounced PEUJOT, with EU as the I in "bird".
Anyway I love this car maker :-)
2006-10-08 08:39:53 · answer #5 · answered by marechal_00 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's actually pronounced Po-geot, as in peu, as in French word for 'a little'.
2006-10-06 10:43:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's pronounced per-got you weirdo because it's a french word. Only the americans say pewgot and that's cos they can't speak. The end.
2006-10-06 10:42:40 · answer #7 · answered by megtownson 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
megtownson is correct. Its'a french work=d so you pronounce it as they do. Why do Americans prononunce everything fentically!
2006-10-06 10:45:24 · answer #8 · answered by PETER F 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its french,it all sounds weird.
2006-10-07 04:02:15 · answer #9 · answered by crazybob 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cos its French and they pronunce things differently
2006-10-06 10:49:21 · answer #10 · answered by Rich S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋