sovay: (Rotwang)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote in [personal profile] steepholm 2014-12-21 05:54 am (UTC)

For years, I've been remembering the old Milky Bar ads as pronouncing the word "Nestlé" like the English word "nestle".

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.

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