Ok, I'm getting hacked off now

[Parptoot]

There is someone I sit next to at work who refers to my car as MaseRATi and it's driving me insane!

How can I politely and gently inform him of the correct pronunciation without offending him and making him feel a bit dim. He has no regional accent to speak of and says anything else pretty much normally for a north Buckinghamshire born and bread person.

It grates so much, like nails down a blackboard. Please, help!!!

 

[Fangio63]

Tell him he's got it about right as it goes like a "Stabbed Rat"....

 

[maverick]

It depends if he's doing it on purpose or just doesn't know different . If it's the first one just ignore if it's the second educate .

 

[Blondie]

"It's like having a PARTY in my MASERATI every time I go out in it" complete with fake posh accent. Worked for me.

 

[allandwf]

No,just make him feel dim

 

[Felonious Crud]

Take him out in it. That should stop him from talking for a while.

 

[bigbob]

First world problem. Gosh, January must be quiet.

 

[hodroyd]

Sounds like he is being a bit of an ar5e due to jealousy and maybe knows it might get to you, so ignore it mate and he will get fed up..!! Alternatively you can get a load of clips off such as you tube, stitch the bits together, then play it back..!! ie numerous different people saying Maserati how it should be pronounced, may just educate the twit sufficiently..!! Eventually he will get tired of listening to the clips and may even apologise..??

 

[Contigo]

Meanwhile back in the real World.....

 

[Parptoot]

He doesn't know it bothers me and he really isn't that clever to do it to make me more annoyed.
I genuinely think he thinks it's said like that. I need to find a subtle way to make him understand he's wrong but he's only young and i don't want to make him look daft but I suspect at some point I'm going to yell at him in a fit of rage. It makes my skin crawl.

Petty I know <groan>

 

[maverick]

Why don't you just tell him how to pronounce it correctly if he carries on punch him in the b*lls .

 

[Chrisbassett]

Send him here...Italians pronouncing Maserati

http://www.forvo.com/word/maserati/

 

[Parptoot]

Why don't you just tell him how to pronounce it correctly if he carries on punch him in the b*lls

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Send him here...Italians pronouncing Maserati

http://www.forvo.com/word/maserati/

Cock on! He's getting that but I'll tell him to ignore the American speaking 'English' at the end who exchanges the 'T' for a 'D'

 

[conaero]

"It's like having a PARTY in my MASERATI every time I go out in it" complete with fake posh accent. Worked for me.

What a gal!!!!

[video=youtube;HzGiotxeecY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzGiotxeecY[/video]

 

[hodroyd]

Lady Blondie Pitstop..!! Hahaha, love it..!!

 

[highlander]

Really? I don't even care if people mispronounce my name let alone the marque.............

 

[gingeh721]

Well I'm from Lancashire and say Mas-e-rati.

Anyone of the posh persuasion who says Mas-er-aaahhhhhhttttiiii is welcome to crack on.

If I asked my lads at work to all stand in a line and say Maserati, they would all say it differently as I work with lads who are from all over the country and commonwealth.

I also say breakfast, dinner, tea and supper. Anyone who doesn't say it like that is wrong ;-)

 

[drewf]

Well I'm from Lancashire

...and you expect me to read anything further than that?

 

[zagatoes30]

I spend most of my time educating these Southerners in how to speak especially all those additional Rs they put in words. After 10 years I have finally got Mrs Z to understand when the children spell the words she says wrong.

C-A-R-S-T-L-E a big building made of stone where knights live

G-R-A-R-S-E green stuff found in gardens

You get the picture.

Education is the answer and if that doesn't work resort to pain administered in any way you feel fit.

 

[Parptoot]

I'll have you know we speak the Queen's English here in the Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire borders