I carried an elderly black lady's shopping trolley up the stairs at the station this morning. That’s something that JohnD and ellal DEFINITELY don’t care to hear about.
Had you seen her just come down. 
I'm going to play snooker tonight ............................ bet you didn't know that!
Before running/stumbling off with it?
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Could be. She was counting the steps as she went up them. 1,3,2,7,5,14,8,62.....Was her name Diane by any chance?
Many "foreign" words have been "anglicised" over many years and some common names have had their pronunciation and even spelling changed.
For example (in English):-
Paris is pronounced Par-iss (not Par-ee)
München is written and pronounced as Munich
Moskva (Москва) is written as Moscow but pronounced as Mos-co
etc.
However, it is a bit extreme for a speaker of Language A (English) to take a word from Language B (Flemish/Dutch) and pronounce it as if it were a word in Language C (French).
By the way, the word Toyota should be pronounced Toh-yo-ta (NOT Toy-oh-ta).
Similarly, Tokyo is a two syllable word, pronounced TOH-kyo. NOT a three syllable word Toh-KEY-oh.
American speakers usually get Nissan correct, pronouncing it NEE-san, whereas most Australians get it incorrect, pronouncing it NISS-an, perhaps from an association with the term "Nissen Hut".
How is Nissan pronounced in the UK?
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EddieM
Niss an. Lidl is also pronounced Lee dull.
I pronounce it Lid-l.
As for Nissan - as said - Niss-an.
They probably pronounce it differently in the North-east where the factory is.
What about Deutschland which we pronounce as Germany?
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durhamplumber
Nis...an.! IN Sunderland
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EddieM
If you throw a pack of playing cards in the air and pick them up, it's is vanishingly unlikely they've ever been picked up in that order before, or indeed will be afterwards.
just a 1:8e67 chance.
just a 1:8e67 chance.
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