Thursday, March 17, 2011

Dianna's Dash of Different Diction

Continuing with last week's Dash of Different Diction we're going to learn how to pronounce Nissan in both American and British!

In the UK, they pronounce it like Nih-San or Nigh-Ssan. I apologise but I didn't take a phonetics class that show you how to officially write the pronunciation of something! I guess you'll just have to watch this commercial from YouTube.
Over in America, they say Knee-San. Here is another YouTube Commercial. It was very difficult to find! Apparently the US Nissan company doesn't like saying the name in their commercials!

I think there is a definite difference between the choice of pronouncing both Ss.
I hope you've enjoyed learning how to pronounce different products in the UK and USA. These are all I've noticed for now but if I come across more, I'll be sure to share!

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