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Americans says JAG-wahr
Brits say JAG-you-wahr
American sportscasters say JAG-wire

― M. V. (M.V.), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

i say JAGJAGUAR.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

i started saying JAG-you-wahr cause it's funny.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

BYERIN LEFT-WITCH ON THE SIIYIDELINE

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

I say dee-jay ro-lan-do

― Rumpie, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

More specifically, I think many Americans say JAG-war.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

.. or even "wore".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

As the word has American origins (albeit South American), I believe our pronunciation is more correctly. Because we're closer.

― andy --, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

from M-W.com: Etymology: Spanish yaguar & Portuguese jaguar, from Guarani yaguara & Tupi jaguara

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

MAGNUS
You better beat it, laddie.

(Max looks up at Magnus Buchan sitting in a tree smoking a cigarette, hacking at a branch with a pocketknife.)

MAX
I hope you fall out of that tree and get a stick in the ass, Buchan.

MAGNUS
You know, I've watched you, Fischer. Showboat, always talking, picking a kid like Dirk cause his mother's a great piece and then getting nowhere. Like everything you do. Big show. No results.

MAX
And what do you call getting a hand job from Mrs. Calloway in her Jaguar?

MAGNUS
A bloody lie.

MAX
You think I got kicked out for just the aquarium? Nah. That ain't it. It was the hand job. And I'll tell you another thing. It was worth it. So eat your heard out, mick. I got business to attend to.

― d-90 (D-90), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)

aluminum

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 09:47 (twenty years ago)

i call my jaguar "baby", which eliminates all confusion.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

My gran pronounces it as Jag-ARRRR. She thinks you're s'posed to pronounce it this way to sound posher. As in "Lou, I think we should get a Jag-ARRR as our next car." This was said forty odd years ago. Since then she has squandered all her money and couldn't even afford a mini Jag-ARRR if she wanted to.

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

Happy 50th birthday Jaguar E-Type!

― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Sunday, 6 March 2011 22:57 (fifteen years ago)

and FWIW, here's a picture of my mom's '67 E-type

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1108/1372811681_7a0fca804c.jpg

― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Sunday, 6 March 2011 22:58 (fifteen years ago)

If that's your mums car, then you have a good start in life.
Not meaning materialistic, taste and culture wise.

― not_goodwin, Monday, 7 March 2011 00:17 (fifteen years ago)

thirteen years pass...

Jaguar kills all products but the F-Pace this year

Speaking of Jaguar, when the automaker revealed its F-Pace 90th Anniversary Edition — while clarifying that F-Pace production would continue "for the foreseeable future" — we were left to think the the global Jaguar range would consist of the electric I-Pace, the E-Pace crossover and the XF sedan. A few days after that special edition F-Pace, Jaguar announced its Castle Bromwich plant had assembled the final examples of the F-Type, XE sedan, and XF Sportbrake. Automotive News reports Mardell told analysts Jaguar would kill everything but the F-Pace this year. Mardell didn't provide timing, but with his comment that "None of those are vehicles on which we made any money," it sounds like it could be sooner rather than later. In the most recent quarter, the F-Pace represented a third of Jaguar sales globally, while Jaguar sales represented 14% of Jaguar Land Rover Sales.

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 19 July 2024 00:42 (one year ago)

killing every product except their butt-ugly crossover suv which looks like every other butt-ugly crossover suv, that's the kind of vision we've come to expect from jlr, kudos

― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 July 2024 10:45 (one year ago)

my neighbour bought two and even he admits its to give a reasonable percentage chance that one will be working at a given moment

― tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Friday, 19 July 2024 10:56 (one year ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFOvY48_OhI

― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Wednesday, 24 July 2024 05:50 (one year ago)

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