Subaru pronounciation? - Page 2

Aurelius311 · 04-24-2008, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by chaos311clarity

lol @ people around here saying "wudder" instead of water.

And "draw" instead of drawer. Or "miah" instead of mirror. And dont even get me started on the people I worked with in Boston when I used to live there. Its like no one bothered to teach them English when they were little.

totsubo · 04-24-2008, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Aurelius311

One syllable HAS to be emphasized more than the others. Its a basic tenant of the English language. Otherwise, its not a word.

I thought someone was asking how to say it in Japanese.

ACHAHockey · 04-24-2008, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by chaos311clarity

lol @ people around here saying "wudder" instead of water.

, a girl who lives on my gf's floor at school is from Reading and says wudder. She also calls cereal "surreal". Around in Buffalo, wash is pronounced "warsh", and the word creek is pronounced "crick".

BLACK 05 RS · 04-24-2008, 10:43 AM

Every time I see a japeneese review they say subaru real quickly like it is one syllable.
subaruwrx S-T-I

renns · 04-24-2008, 10:45 AM

They just say SUbaru in the commercials so I'm going to stick with that.

PBR600RR · 04-24-2008, 10:50 AM

I say tuhmay-toe...

Kylipso · 04-24-2008, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by totsubo

"su" is pronounced like the name Sue.
"ba" as in the name Barney (minus the -rney).
"ru" more like LU as in Looney Tunes.

Each syllable is the same length, so you would not draw out or put more emphases on one syllable... I hope this makes sense.

^^^ yep

スバル
su ba ru

all of the Japanese characters have the same emphasis unless combined with supplementary characters.

Ie
ビル
Biru

ビール
Biiru

one is a beer and one is a building

***Crewchief*** · 04-25-2008, 06:09 PM

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300hp@6000rpm · 04-27-2008, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by BLACK 05 RS

Every time I see a japeneese review they say subaru real quickly like it is one syllable.
subaruwrx S-T-I

I've actually had a few people come up to me and seriously say "Nice Sty, man!"

BobDigi5060 · 04-27-2008, 12:47 PM

The narrarators for Best Motoring pronounce Impreza like "Im-pretzz-ah".

I love saying it like that

Ron89 · 04-27-2008, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Aurelius311

Ok, so my Grandmother works with some exchange students from Japan at University at BUffalo, and she drives an outback. And apparently they told her its pronounced "sue-BAH-roo" with the emphasis on the second syllable. As opposed of course to "SUE-bah-roo" like we say here.

Just curious if anyone else has heard this? Anyone in Japan maybe clarify?

The first time I heard it pronounced like that was in this video (46 seconds in) I also hate when a hood is referred to as a bonnet.

YouTube - Subaru Brumby

C.J. · 05-01-2008, 04:52 PM

my close family friends from South Africa also pronounce it with emphasis on the second sylable

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