Carrefour - 'cafu' or 'care-four'?

• trendz

  16 Dec 06, 00:27

  Okay. I still hear many people pronouncing carrefour as 'care-four'. It should be 'cafu' or 'car-fu' right?
  
  and IKEA as 'eek-kia' - shouldn't it be 'e-kay-year'?
  
  
• FireIce

  16 Dec 06, 00:29

  i dunno and dun relli care how other pronounce......
  
  i like to call carrefour - care-ler-four
  and ikea as - yee-kay-year
• ^tamago^

  16 Dec 06, 00:29

  Cahr-uh-foor
• hellomotosxq

  16 Dec 06, 00:33

  carrefour --------jia le fu .
  
  ikea---------i jia .
• Ito_^

  16 Dec 06, 00:34

  i pronounce car-four. i think someone told me its wrong but who gives a damm.
• ^tamago^

  16 Dec 06, 00:38

  ikea's parent company is called ikano.
• MooKu

  16 Dec 06, 00:40

  i pronounce as i-kia... cos lazy.
  
  i keh year just doesn't roll off the tongue as easily as ikia
• ditzy

  16 Dec 06, 00:41

  curry 4.
• Xtrider

  16 Dec 06, 00:44

  car- la-fare...
• trendz

  16 Dec 06, 00:46

  what the hell! you guys are hilarious!
• Pitot

  16 Dec 06, 00:49

  Colourful la
• Pitot

  16 Dec 06, 00:50

  
• Urroh

  16 Dec 06, 00:56

  cafu for me..
• browniebaobao

  16 Dec 06, 00:58

  cafu is the correct pronounciation..
  
  juz like some ple insist on calling Sakae as 'Sakay'.. but actually it should be pronounced as 'SaKa-eh'
• mayday80

  16 Dec 06, 01:06

  Originally posted by MooKu:

  i pronounce as i-kia... cos lazy.
  
  i keh year just doesn't roll off the tongue as easily as ikia

  yah... it's pronounced as ai-ki-aaa in the states.
• FireIce

  16 Dec 06, 01:08

  hermes oso many ppl dunno how to pronounce
• mayday80

  16 Dec 06, 01:08

  Originally posted by trendz:

  Okay. I still hear many people pronouncing carrefour as 'care-four'. It should be 'cafu' or 'car-fu' right?
  
  and IKEA as 'eek-kia' - shouldn't it be 'e-kay-year'?
  
  

  I think car-fool sounds right.
• trendz

  16 Dec 06, 01:13

  Originally posted by hellomotosxq:

  carrefour --------jia le fu .
  
  ikea---------i jia .

  no one gives a flying f** about chinese translation and i am fully aware of its translation, mind you.
  
  now beat it, china-man! you just made a blop.
• ditzy

  16 Dec 06, 01:15

  Originally posted by FireIce:

  hermes oso many ppl dunno how to pronounce

  herms.
• mayday80

  16 Dec 06, 01:25

  Originally posted by trendz:

  no one gives a flying f** about chinese translation and i am fully aware of its translation, mind you.
  
  now beat it, china-man! you just made a blop.

  ya man... it's ikea = yi jia btw... that guy flunked his han yu pin yin!
• banzie

  16 Dec 06, 01:28

  its actually a french word... its Car-full
• striderz_o405

  16 Dec 06, 01:28

  Originally posted by trendz:

  no one gives a flying f** about chinese translation and i am fully aware of its translation, mind you.
  
  now beat it, china-man! you just made a blop.

  he's pwned
• FireIce

  16 Dec 06, 01:31

  Originally posted by banzie:

  its actually a french word... its Car-full

  full?
  since when got L?
• greenblackwhite

  16 Dec 06, 13:17

  its french.
  
  pronounced as KHAAR(vibrating R)-FOO
  
  when pronouncing R you shd sound as though you are clearing your throat.
  
  lool
• NUS_Superst@r

  16 Dec 06, 13:18

  say it as car-fu.