Correct pronnunciation of Desiro?

[Gizmogle]

I've noticed Northerners tend to say "Dez'eye'ro" and Southerners tend to say "Dez'ear'oh".
So how do you say it?

 

[Ascot]

with the eye but with a very deep and simple expression usually followed with "enyt iyt mayte"

 

[Callufrax]

I've noticed Northerners tend to say "Dez'eye'ro" and Southerners tend to say "Dez'ear'oh".
So how do you say it?

I pronounce it "Dez'ear'oh". Even though I lived in the North (Manchester), I first heard the name while railfanning in the South West. So, it kind of stuck. Though, to be honest, when I read it in print (before hearing it spoken), I also pronounced it "Dez'ear'oh".

 

[Nick W]

I've always believed it was desire-oh. Thought few desire them.

 

[Gizmogle]

Microsoft Sam says "Dez'ear'oh" lol.

I say both, depending on who I'm with. But "Dez'eye'ro" was my original pronnunciation.

 

[Daniel]

Voted for "Dez'ear'oh" because that's what I use most often.

However, I, too, use both, depending on who i'm talking to.

 

[matt]

I use Dez'eye'ro but ive heard CT conductors call them a Dez'ear'oh

 

[Guinness]

I call it Dez-eye-ro but I've heard Drivers call it Dez-ear-ro trains.

 

[Tom]

SWT call them Dez-eye-ro.

 

[Crompton Karl]

Personally i say Desiro

Karl

 

[thefab444]

Dez-eye-ro for me too.

 

[devon_metro]

Des-eye-ro

 

[Coxster]

I use "Dez'ear'oh" as that's what the staff I was with on work experience called them.

 

[Gizmogle]

I use "Dez'ear'oh" as that's what the staff I was with on work experience called them.

Here come the Southerners

 

[Coxster]

Here come the Southerners

You say that like it's a bad thing...?

 

[Gizmogle]

You say that like it's a bad thing...?

No, of course not.
*hangs her Northern head in shame*

 

[Mintona]

des - ear - o 'ere darn Sarth

 

[Jordy]

You say that like it's a bad thing...?

It is!

Dez'eye'ro for me

 

[332 > 444]

^^Ditto, and im a Southerner.

 

[mbonwick]

Dez'ear'oh, even though I'm a northerner!

TBH, I've never thought about pronouncing it Dez'eye'ro

 

[Craig]

You're all wrong, it's pronounced "crap"

 

[1D53]

As a Northerner Dez'ear'oh!

 

[Julian G]

You're all wrong, it's pronounced "crap"

Ner Ner, It's Undesiro for me

 

[Tom]

Ah - but as Desiro is based on the word "desire" - do you say I dezear or I dezeyer.

 

[Ascot]

Ah - but as Desiro is based on the word "desire" - do you say I dezear or I dezeyer.

Dezz"eye"a for Desire

 

[175001]

Des-ear-oh I call them, as thats how you would pronounce it in Welsh

 

[Gizmogle]

Ah - but as Desiro is based on the word "desire" - do you say I dezear or I dezeyer.

Yes, but you've got to remember it's a German brand.
Does it have a German pronnunciation?

 

[WessexWarrior]

Des'ear'oh for me too. This is an interesting debate...

 

[CraigS]

Des-eye-ro

 

[westcoaster]

des'ear'oh for me too but sometime there called dead zero`s or undesirables