On 29/06/2010 00:34, The Iron Jelloid wrote:

The French kitchen equipment company Moulinex (which mum always said
should be pronounced "Moliknow") actually ran adverts where they
pronounced it "Moon-li-nex", because that was how most UK people said
it.

Your mum is wrong. She is mixing (no pun intended) it with molyneux.

Sometimes it's just easier to accept that the natives of one country
will never learn to pronounce "foreign" words correctly, though it must
surely make people from the original country cringe to hear it.

Oranjeboom, Oranjeboom it's a lager not a tune...
(correct pronunciation is o-ran-yuh-boam)