[Ads-l] Porsche

[Geoffrey Nathan]

I can't seem to find a searchable version of the Archives,
so I’ll just flat-out ask.

Does anyone know whether there’s been
a study of whether 'Porsche' is pronounced as one or two syllables?
In a totally unrelated context a friend has suggested that
the pronunciations are correlated with whether you own one or not.
Does anyone have any insight on the question, or pointers to
work on the topic?

Geoff

Geoffrey S. Nathan
WSU Information Privacy Officer (Retired)
Emeritus Professor, Linguistics Program
https://clasprofiles.wayne.edu/profile/an6993
geoffnathan at wayne.edu

Geoffrey S. Nathan
WSU Information Privacy Officer (Retired)
Emeritus Professor, Linguistics Program
https://clasprofiles.wayne.edu/profile/an6993
geoffnathan at wayne.edu


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