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I Love To Say Pantene


JSngry

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I shudder at the thought of how this will come out when pronounced with that nasal, chewing-gummy drawl common in certain quarters ... :lol:

("Flan" in New England, not so much, but others elsewhere ... ^_^)

 

I'll never forget the moment I overheard some very US-ish (Southern?) tourist clamor for a "Whhooouuuaaappwwrrrrr" in a Burger King outlet in Barcelona. Not sure of how the locals would have pronounced that ("Voppere"?? :D) but the way he did it was way over the top, particularly abroad in non-Anglosaxon territory.

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To top things off, did you know that that product was spelled and marketed as "PANTEEN" here for a very long time?

The marketing people seemed to insist on playing it safe. As if the clients here were THAT unaware of the fact that an English-based word ought to be pronounced passably English-y

Not sure of how that product was marketed in France back then where this kind of clashes of linguistic cultures would have posed much bigger problems but still ...

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