Then there's Michelin - perhaps an even more interesting case, since the same company is well known for three different things, each of which falls into a different stereotypical class bracket...
I seem to say "Mish-e-lin," but I am in the wrong country for it to be significant data.
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I always pronounced it like "Nestley's," because I saw an advertisement with Farfel the Dog as a very small child and have remembered ever since: Nestlé's makes the very best . . . Chocolate. (Just looked for it on YouTube; could find others from the series, but not the one I remember. But the little click as the dog's jaw closed, that was distinctive.)
Then there's Michelin - perhaps an even more interesting case, since the same company is well known for three different things, each of which falls into a different stereotypical class bracket...
I seem to say "Mish-e-lin," but I am in the wrong country for it to be significant data.