[Team] Alpine: The cars are Racing Points

[Tourer]

Originally Posted by flatlandsman

Do you think now they are done we can go back to calling Alpine, Al Pine, or do we have to keep calling the sportscars Alpeen? Idiotic rubbish

It's just the French pronunciation, that's all. Like calling Renault "Ren-O" rather than "Ren-alt" or calling BMW "Bee-Emm-Vay" rather than "Bee-Emm-double U" and so on.

[Tourer]

For those who haven't seen it, Otmar did a fascinating interview with Jake Humphries that is on YouTube and well worth watching (warning, just over an hour long). A lot of it is of course about Alpine and the colossal cluster-fluff the (then) reporting structure appeared to have. Even allowing for some residual bitterness on Otmar's part, it sounds like an utter mess.

Hopefully the new guy gets a better run at it.

[Gerard C]

Call'em Benz now…

[Richard C]

Originally Posted by flatlandsman

Do you think now they are done we can go back to calling Alpine, Al Pine, or do we have to keep calling the sportscars Alpeen? Idiotic rubbish

I know exactly how you feel. While your on the "Al Pine" bandwagon, can you switch your spelling over to tire, color, flavor, etc. I can send a list if you want. Also please refrain from using "rubbish" the correct word is "garbage". One last thing... please learn how to pronounce Aluminum correctly. It gives me a shiver up my spine each time I hear it the wrong way. These country specific spellings and pronunciations must go. We just all need to switch to exactly how George Washington intended.

Richard

[morninggents]

Originally Posted by Richard C

I know exactly how you feel. While your on the "Al Pine" bandwagon, can you switch your spelling over to tire, color, flavor, etc. I can send a list if you want. Also please refrain from using "rubbish" the correct word is "garbage". One last thing... please learn how to pronounce Aluminum correctly. It gives me a shiver up my spine each time I hear it the wrong way. These country specific spellings and pronunciations must go. We just all need to switch to exactly how George Washington intended.

Richard

We must also remember to say hood, trunk and gas. I'm sure George said those as well.

[Greem]

Ooh, this is fighting talk where I come from - the land of Breakfast, Dinner & Tea. Supper is something you eat after 9pm. Gas comes through pipes and is used for heating & cooking (and power generation), to tire is to be sleepy, trunks are worn for swimming, hoods are something you put on your bonce when it rains.

And don't get started on aluminium. Why pronounce it aluminum when there are 79 other elements that end in 'ium'?

Honestly, you chuck a bunch of tea in the harbour and think you rule the world.

[Peter Mallett]

Originally Posted by Richard C

I know exactly how you feel. While your on the "Al Pine" bandwagon, can you switch your spelling over to tire, color, flavor, etc. I can send a list if you want. Also please refrain from using "rubbish" the correct word is "garbage". One last thing... please learn how to pronounce Aluminum correctly. It gives me a shiver up my spine each time I hear it the wrong way. These country specific spellings and pronunciations must go. We just all need to switch to exactly how George Washington intended.

Richard

I fear that would be somewhat of a wrench.

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by Greem

Ooh, this is fighting talk where I come from - the land of Breakfast, Dinner & Tea. Supper is something you eat after 9pm. Gas comes through pipes and is used for heating & cooking (and power generation), to tire is to be sleepy, trunks are worn for swimming, hoods are something you put on your bonce when it rains.

And don't get started on aluminium. Why pronounce it aluminum when there are 79 other elements that end in 'ium'?

Honestly, you chuck a bunch of tea in the harbour and think you rule the world.

That would be harbor.

[S griffin]

Alpine or Alpeen, either way it's probably going to keep the name, despite now being less French

[flatlandsman]

The issue also is as I don't really watch much F1, I have to put with Peen in WEC!

I did see an advert on telly recently that told me I have been saying Skoda wrong for decades, apparently now it is Schkoda.

Does that really make it sound any more desirable?

And dont get me started on Hyundai, Hee un day, cmon