Octavia or Octarvia?

[Gti Dave]

lol, same here.
sometimes we use "bumble bee"
glad it doesn't sting....but i wish it did "transform"

Ha Ha...yeah that's what I've been calling it since watching transformers last week. I used to call it the taxi since everyone else's been giving me flack about it.

[Gti Dave]

I think it is acceptable to have different accents. I prefer Oc-tay-via myself.

What about Nissan (Nissun vs. Neeeesahn)

Yeah just like pronouncing Porsche as either porsh or as some like to pronounce it as porshar.

[BlackSuperb]

Yeah just like pronouncing Porsche as either porsh or as some like to pronounce it as porshar.

Or a bit like pronouncing Falcon like "Falcon" or like "heap of rubbish"?

[dru]

Or a bit like pronouncing Falcon like "Falcon" or like "heap of rubbish"?

lol...gotta say, that actually made me laugh

[Damo105]

I was actually pondering this topic recently. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's meant to be pronounced Oct-arh-via, not Oct-tay-via. Because that's the way the Czech's pronounce it. And Skoda is pronounced Shkoda, with the 'o' pronounced as in 'or'.

But of course I could be wrong!

[Transporter]

I was actually pondering this topic recently. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's meant to be pronounced Oct-arh-via, not Oct-tay-via. Because that's the way the Czech's pronounce it. And Skoda is pronounced Shkoda, with the 'o' pronounced as in 'or'.

But of course I could be wrong!

Yep, but without the ''r''.

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[Fireside]

Yep, but without the ''r''.

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I'm the same... My fam is from the Eastern Block and they all say Sh-ko-da, Oc-tah-via.

[bobski]

I'm from western sydney. I say it with as broad an aussie drawl as I can muster OCTAYYYVIYYYA

[RSOK]

Well how's this, I got laughed at several months ago for calling it by it's correct (read: Czech/European) pronunciation, that is to say Oc-tah-via... my mate laughed and basically called me out for sonding 'posh'... when I told him that was the correct pronunciaton he wouldn't have a bar of it.... of course here in Oz we're bound to, as Bobski would say, use our great Australian drawl and pronounce it to be the Oc-taaaaay-via and if so then it ain't no biggie really, we know what we mean.