>From: "Tony Clark" <lotus.tony@airmail.net>
>Reply-To: "Tony Clark" <lotus.tony@airmail.net>
>To: <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: Translation Service
>Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 14:03:42 -0500
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Vaughn Rockney
>
> > You are absolutely right.. Jaguar is indeed pronounced with only two
> > syllables... makes me puke when announcers put the modern pronunciation
>onto
> > vintage cars and places.. spoils the whole atmosphere, IMHO.
>
>
>Jaguar:
>
>English pronunciation: Jag' yoo ar
>
>American pronunciation: Jag' war
>
>We Americans don't know how to pronounce the name of that American cat?
The locals call them "El Tigre". Where "jaguar" came from is a
mystery to me.
Greg Petrolati Champaign, Illinois
1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
That's not a leak... My car's just marking its territory...
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