How do you pronounce Fiat?

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WarbirdAL
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How do you pronounce Fiat?

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Like there isnt anything important going on in my life today...


I have always pronounced it Fee aught (as in yaught) I have been watching Top Gear show from England and have noticed that the Brits pronounce it as Feeit. Got me thinking today... wonder how the Italians pronounce it.
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i'm with you al. must be a mid-western thang, 'eh?

FEE-aught
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all of my Irish friends pronounce it Feeit, most people that aren't familiar with them say MG :evil:
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I always pronounced it T-O-N-Y.
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Having toured Italy and visited most of the Fiat manufacturing facilitys, I noticed that they seem to pronounce it as..Fee-at almost Vee-at...
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I like to pronounce it "Forever In need of Attention". Some pronounce it "Finding it all terrific". To each his own.

Oh, yeah, and I refer to it as Fee-yacht.
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Even down here in the South where we pronounce words with several extra syllables, we like to say Fee-Yaught
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Did you all notice that most of the pronunciation for FIAT has "Fee" in it? Wonder why?? :roll:
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Well, it's a long "E" sound...and that's the accented syllable...isn't that why?
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I've always said "FEE-ot", but a Canadian buddy of mine says "feeit", almost "feet".
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I pronounce it Fee-aught. But my Dad had a little Fiat sedan back in the late 50's and he called it the Fit.
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Love it ! :) :lol:
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It's definately 'Fee-it' down here in Aus :D
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In western Canada, we pronounce it "fee-at", though we do shorten the "a" quite a lot, possibly sounding like "fee-it". I imagine in Ontario and east they say it differently.
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Spagetti racer works for me
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