On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:47:47 -0700, bob wrote:

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)

I once heard someone pronounce the beer as if it was the adjective
between "bombardy" and "bombardiest".