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On 11/9/24 10:05 AM, badgolferman wrote:
> Andrews wrote:
> 
>> I never claimed to be a BMW expert - I simply claimed to own a bimmer
>> and a beemer and because of that, I know a lot about those two
>> vehicles.
> 
> I'm ignorant as to the difference between a "bimmer" and a "beemer" so
> maybe you can explain it to me.  Why don't people just say BMW?  It's
> not like that's a long acronym.

Looks like no one cleanly answered your question.

FWIW, I always have to go look up this trivia, as I've never become 
invested enough in BMW to care enough to remember:

Bimmer is the slang for BMW's automobiles;
Beemer is the slang for BMW's motorcycles.


> I may have mentioned this once.  My mother who is German made sure I
> knew how to pronounce Audi correctly.  She hated when people pronounced
> it "au-di" and said it's pronounced "ow-di".

Similarly, that Porsche is two syllables, not one.


-hh