jobs say, "jagwire, now odamadic"
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adambyte
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Eh, true. We Californians DO get lazy and say "oddamatic" instead of "ottomatic."
"Jagwire," however, is strictly a Jobs-ian thing. No idea what the hell he means when he says it.
Then again, don't the Brits say "Jag-yoo-are?" I hear the narrator with the British accent for the Jaguar car ads, and that's what they say.
"Jagwire," however, is strictly a Jobs-ian thing. No idea what the hell he means when he says it.
Then again, don't the Brits say "Jag-yoo-are?" I hear the narrator with the British accent for the Jaguar car ads, and that's what they say.
brianleahy
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The same place the extra syllable in "Al-you-min-ee-um" (aka aluminum) comes from.
Actually, it's perfectly valid to pronounce the letter "u" as "you" - like in unicycle, universe, ukelele, etc. In fact, that's a "long U". It isn't used too often in the middles of words, but there's no reason it can't be. In the US, we barely pronounce the "u" in Jaguar at all, we almost turn it into a "w" ("jag-wahr").
Just lately, on a local morning radio show (WMJI in Cleveland) they've begun running ads for Jaguar automobiles, recorded by a British (or at least British-sounding) female announcer, who of course says it "jag-you-ur". Hardly a day goes by that the DJs don't get phone calls from listeners who are upset - or at least baffled - by this alternate pronunciation.
The sad part is, these are invariably the LAST people who ought to be griping about how someone else speaks: "Say, jest when in thuh hail did jag-war become jag-yew-arr? That's jest stew-pid..."
TommyWillB
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Jag-war vs. Jag-u-ar
Americans just like using as few syllables as possible... because we are busy people who have a lot to say and no time to waste with extranious stuff.
Americans just like using as few syllables as possible... because we are busy people who have a lot to say and no time to waste with extranious stuff.