- 1. Jagwar or Jag-you-are. (score: 1)
- Author: "DEHAAS, MARK" <dehaasm@napc-1.navy.mil>
- Date: 2 Nov 92 16:10:00 EDT
- When I went up to see the IMSA GT race at Watkins Glen this summer the announcer kept saying: .....Jag-you-are.... At the time I thought he was messed up and didn't how to pronounce Jaguar. Well, kno
- /html/british-cars/1992-11/msg00025.html (7,060 bytes)
- 2. Jagwar or Jag-you-are. (score: 1)
- Author: berry@athos.pei.com (Berry Kercheval)
- Date: Mon, 2 Nov 92 13:39:03 PST
- During the Gulf War the british correspondents kept calling the aircraft "Jag-you-er" too. I think only the animal is still "jag-warr". --berry
- /html/british-cars/1992-11/msg00026.html (7,317 bytes)
- 3. Re: Jagwar or Jag-you-are. (score: 1)
- Author: Roland Dudley <cobra@cdc.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Nov 92 14:50:44 pst
- I believe jaguar is the Spanish spelling of an indigenous native word. The Spanish diphthong ua is sort of a wa sound. BBC announcers do the same thing to the pronunciation of Nicaragua. The America
- /html/british-cars/1992-11/msg00029.html (7,671 bytes)
- 4. Re: Jagwar or Jag-you-are. (score: 1)
- Author: We need bigger guns!!! <brandenberg@3d.enet.dec.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Nov 92 18:52:17 EST
- Here's the definitive pronunciation key: British English: jag' yoo wa"r American English: jag' wa"r E. E. Milne: jag' yoo la"r (personal favorite) Monty
- /html/british-cars/1992-11/msg00032.html (7,371 bytes)
- 5. Re: Jagwar or Jag-you-are. (score: 1)
- Author: lupienj@wal.hp.com (John Lupien)
- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 92 09:09:13 EST
- Roland sez: While you may be right about the Spanish origin of the spelling of Jaguar, and about the French origin of "garage", the French pronunciation is quite a bit closer to the US "garaahge than
- /html/british-cars/1992-11/msg00036.html (7,447 bytes)
- 6. Re: Jagwar or Jag-you-are. (score: 1)
- Author: timd@ptltd.com (Tim Dziechowski)
- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 92 12:47:16 EST
- As I was firing up the Midget this morning, I thought about the proper pronunciation of MG... Jag-you-aren't? ;^)
- /html/british-cars/1992-11/msg00054.html (6,859 bytes)
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