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TRD= turd, SVT is well.....SVT, it doesn't matter
, but if you aren't a true enthusiast then you won't know what the hell we're talking about and just look at us funny.
But yeah it doesn't matter how it's said, like TJ said, S.H.O. to me means a Yamaha engined Taurus
mad_machine wrote:When frat-boys dady's started buying them for birthday presents. And it's damned stupid yankee! You'uns caint talk rightReverendDexter wrote:This is like the "beamer" vs "bimmer" argument. While I know that "bimmer" is correct according to the fanboys, no one around me would know what the heck a "bimmer" was were I to say the word (most are surprised to hear that BMW even makes motorcycles).
When did Bimmer become beemer anyway?
Who cares? A real enthusiast would buy a Pontiac "Gate" instead... . 
I've heard Conan O'Brien refer to his taurus "show". Maybe that's because he has a TV show. So to him a SHO is a show. Conan would never lie to us. It must be "show".
Ford used to call it "S-H-O", I'm kind of bummed they changed it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4S7oVi06V0
Bob
I've heard and said it both ways, ever since I owned one back in the early 90s. I would humbly submit that those of you who are bothered by it need more stuff to worry about in your lives....
Well sure, Tom, but then what would we rant about on these forums?
Eric - It's okay that someone with your deep understanding has fallen prey to bad advertising. It happens to all of us sometimes.
I'm one of those people that gripes about proper apostrophe placement, too.
Don't even get me started on drive "thrus"
I always called them S-H-Os, but heard them calling it a sho in the commercials for the new model.
Adrian_Thompson wrote:Well along with Alfa Driver and all other Ford employees I use the acronym SHO not the abbreviation S.H.O.
So then if the S-H-O is show then it follows that you call the S-E-L the "sell"? Right because if you are going to sound out the letters in the model name you have to do it for all of them.
I call the big Mercury a "Grandma Keys"
I often say Pee-Seven-One
I am known for saying Ecksuratty
So I accept that Eric calls the Taurus a SHOW... I think it should be enunciated, but I accept it.
NickF40 wrote:TRD= turd, SVT is ...
Sivet
From now on the ford full sized pickup will be called a Funfifty as well
Kia_racer wrote:Adrian_Thompson wrote:Well along with Alfa Driver and all other Ford employees I use the acronym SHO not the abbreviation S.H.O.
So then if the S-H-O is show then it follows that you call the S-E-L the "sell"? Right because if you are going to sound out the letters in the model name you have to do it for all of them.
Really, outside of the SVT and SHO packages, nobody ever talks about trim levels. Mainly since the SVT and SHO variants are generally powertrain/chassis work, so they are VERY different in our world.
Work wise- I've never really said SE, SEL, Limited, etc. For what I do, it just doesnt matter. SHO matters.
Then again, I still find in amusing that how one pronounces the name really matters. The car is selling quite well, and I'm pretty sure that every one of you who is debating how it should be said isn't going to buy one, new. The age of the $40k Taurus SHO is here, and it's selling. Selling well.
(Oh, and for those of you who thought the $27-35k Taurus would fail vs. a 20k Camry- well, sales are pointing out that they are not in the same class. So far, Taurus sales are quite a bit above projection, too. )
Eric
So, a friend of mine has a MRD sticker on his car, and wears a tshirt with the same. Stands for Millenium Racing Development. I go to James Madison University to work a football game, and I see lots of MRD shirts. Like, hundreds, if not thousands of them. Finally I ask someone, what does it stand for. Marching Royal Dukes. I was saddened that I wasn't surrounded by gearheads.
I'm probably going to test drive one this afternoon. I figure if I show up in the S2k they won't ask too many questions of the young guy test driving a twin turbo Taurus 
I wasn't aware of this new model either. It really is a shame they decided to market it as the "show" instead of ess ayche oh, in my opinion.
Yeah...scuba, laser, nascar, and all that have become commonplace pronunciations of initials.
Those all were before I had any say about them and, quite probably, the initials came before the actual name (maybe "quite possibly" or "quite sometimes" would be more appropriate).
I don't call it the "upps" truck (Unite Parcel Service).
I don't call it Bimmer or Beamer...it's bee emm doubleyou (BMW)
I don't call it a svit...it would be an ess vee tee (SVT)
The mustang with a turbo isn't a svoh (rather sveedish sounding, hun?)...it's an ess vee oh (SVO)
I don't live in the oosa or oosay...I live in the you ess ay (USA) or, more frequently I say The United States (rarely, if ever do I say "America").
I didn't own two merker exarefortieyes...they were mare-coor ex are four tee eyes.
I don't speak in "puch" terms, I call them "pee cee" when I'm being diplomatic.
I didn't have a veecer in the 80's and 90's...that was a vee see are.
Nor do I own a "dvid" player now...that's a dee vee dee player.
Radio controlled stuff is not "ruch"...it's are see (or more commonly "Radio controlled")
I'm also not big on abbreviations...like ASSY for Assembly, and secs for seconds, and the like. I'm not sure why...
Clem
ClemSparks wrote:I don't call it the "upps" truck (Unite Parcel Service).
I do... that or shorten it even more to "the upstruck".
And I'm very guilty of pronouncing XR4Ti as "Exerati" (rhymes with Maserati)
You must emphasize the RAT in ecksurratty
sobe_death wrote:I'm probably going to test drive one this afternoon. I figure if I show up in the S2k they won't ask too many questions of the young guy test driving a twin turbo Taurus
You mean a STOOO?
That's the same company that makes the C-I-V-I-C.
Make sure you tell them you want to drive the "F-O-R-D show"
F-O-R-D- that spells show.
Ooooh, good one.... I wonder how many know where that one comes from.
Who really gives a flying berkley? Seriously, it doesn't make the car any less cool, and if the guy know's how to drive it/take care of it, I don't give a crap what he calls it.
ClemSparks wrote: Those all were before I had any say about them and, quite probably, the initials came before the actual name (maybe "quite possibly" or "quite sometimes" would be more appropriate).
The sad truth is that you don't really have any say about the sho either...
You can't really say compare one acronym to another, they are completely different things... and just because one is spelled out does not mean that all other have to be as well.
Speech is what we make it, and we have made sho something you pronounce rather then spell.
mtn wrote:Who really gives a flying berkley? Seriously, it doesn't make the car any less cool, and if the guy know's how to drive it/take care of it, I don't give a crap what he calls it.
Okay, mountain.
John Brown wrote:mtn wrote:Who really gives a flying berkley? Seriously, it doesn't make the car any less cool, and if the guy know's how to drive it/take care of it, I don't give a crap what he calls it.
Okay, mountain.
You really actually confused me for about a minute. I'm kinda slow
