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Old June 30th 10, 08:47 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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On 28 June, 23:20, Arthur Figgis wrote:

Anyone mentioned Bombardier yet? (being from Quebec, the train and plane
manufacturer is not pronounced like the beer)


French canadian: Bom-bah-dzay
Anglo canadian: Bom-bar-dee-yay (with a strong USian/Candian "R" in
bar)
Beer: Bomb-ber-deer (unless I'm drinking with certain railway
enthusiastic friends, in which case we deliberately mispronounce it to
match the railway supplier)

Robin