I Love To Say Pantene

[JSngry]

 pannTEEENnn

[felser]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

 pannTEEENnn

Are you offering it or looking for it?

[JSngry]

I'm saying it.

I love saying it.

The best sounding shampoo ever, I daresay.

[Michael]

You said it!

[sonnymax]

Here's one of my favorite words: FLAN! 

It's as much fun to say as it is to eat.

[Big Beat Steve]

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

("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"?? ) but the way he did it was way over the top, particularly abroad in non-Anglosaxon territory.

Edited December 26, 2020 by Big Beat Steve

[JSngry]

 

[Big Beat Steve]

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 ...

[JSngry]

Nobody on the commercials pronounce it the way I pronounce it.

I have a very personal relationship with that sound. I am stronger than TV in my own mind. I am.

I am.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

So how do you pronounce 'canteen'?

Same?

Different?

What do you think about THAT word?

MG

[Big Beat Steve]

Well, it "ought" to be pronounced the same way, except for the first letter, of course.

[Dave Garrett]

[JSngry]

In a right world, Panteen would be Liquid Prell-ified.

But this ain't in no ways no kind of no right world.

[king ubu]

Here's the Pantounnnnnne colour of the year for ya:

https://www.pantone.com/color-of-the-year-2021