How do you pronounce Acura?

[Barfo]

My friend says correct way is A-coo-rah but that old guy in Pulp Fiction says A-cue-rah so which is it?

 

[Zenmervolt]

Ak-yoor-uh.

Similar to "Accurate".

 

[burntfish]

ack-cue-ra

 

[Aikouka]

Ah-cuh-rah

EDIT:

Originally posted by: burntfish
ack-cue-ra

I don't know how you get two constant sounds out of a single letter 'c'. The only way to get a double constant sound in Japanese is two of the same constant directly following each other.

 

[Eli]

I had no idea that this was even debatable.

A-coo-rah??

:laugh::laugh:

 

[Alone]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Ak-yoor-uh.

Similar to "Accurate".

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Ak-yoor-uh.

Similar to "Accurate".

 

[Vinfinite]

Originally posted by: Aikouka
Ah-cuh-rah

EDIT:

Originally posted by: burntfish
ack-cue-ra

I don't know how you get two constant sounds out of a single letter 'c'. The only way to get a double constant sound in Japanese is two of the same constant directly following each other.

seriously, how do you say it any other way...

 

[mugs]

Jag-you-are
/extends pinky while sipping tea

Oh Acura? Ak-yur-ah

 

[aphex]

I think the obvious answer is that your friend is an idiot.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: burntfish
ack-cue-ra

 

[Canai]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Ak-yoor-uh.

Similar to "Accurate".

 

[Vinfinite]

Originally posted by: aphex
I think the obvious answer is that your friend is an idiot.

Agreed

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: aphex
I think the obvious answer is that your friend is an idiot.

I concur.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Aikouka
Ah-cuh-rah

EDIT:

Originally posted by: burntfish
ack-cue-ra

I don't know how you get two constant sounds out of a single letter 'c'. The only way to get a double constant sound in Japanese is two of the same constant directly following each other.

They don't sell Acuras in Japan, so who cares how it would be pronounced in Japanese? Their own commercials pronounce it the way burntfish pronounces it.
Edit: On second though, It's hard to tell how either of you pronounce it from the way you wrote it, so I'm not sure which of you is right.

 

[ABitTooSpicy]

Honda

 

[Alone]

http://www.loc.gov/nls/other/ABC.html

Acura (AK-y?-rä) Car

 

[AdamK47]

Crap-u-ra

 

[psteng19]

Originally posted by: ABitTooSpicy
Honda

How dare you call my TSX a Honda :|:|:|

 

[Fritzo]

[George Bush] I prounuciate it "Ack-er-a" [/George Bush]

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: Vinfinite
seriously, how do you say it any other way...

See, the problem is, people are speaking it in English, when they forget "Acura" is a Japanese car brand (i.e. Honda). If you look at hiragana, you will see that most of the way people are typing it out, is simply not going to work in Japanese.

Look at this webpage:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/japanese_hiragana.htm

Take 'a' + "ku" + "ra"

You wouldn't use "ko", because that's a "koh" sound, not a "koo" sound like "ku" provides.

 

[Mermaidman]

"Yee-Ro"

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: mugs
They don't sell Acuras in Japan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acura

It is also planned to extend Acura to the Japanese domestic market in 2008.

 

[paulxcook]

Ack-yer-uh.

If I want to sound snooty I'll say Ahck-your-uh.

 

[superHARD]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Ak-yoor-uh.

Similar to "Accurate".