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On 2024-11-11 13:12, Your Name wrote:
> On 2024-11-11 17:46:20 +0000, -hh said:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Doesn't work. Many people call the cars "Beemers".

And normal people don't decide that people can't own a BMW...

....based on whether or not they know the slang terminology.

:-)



>>> 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.
> 
> It's likely mostly Americans who can't pronounce it properly. They have 
> enough trouble with proper English, let alone any other language.  :-p
"Hey I finished painting, but you don't have a "porch"...

....you've got a Ferrari".

:-)