How do you pronounce it?

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 4:47 pm

This is a bit like one of those Gif and Jif questions

How do you pronounce scirocco?

I've heard SHirocco and sEErocco.

Is one right and one wrong?

I say SHirocco myself.

morrissey · Post by **morrissey** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 6:41 pm

All the original '74 water-cooled VWs were named after winds! (Polo, Golf, Passat, Scirocco)

As the scirocco wind affects southern Italy, I'd assume an italian pronunciation.

so shirokko

Post by **Kev** » Tue May 12, 2009 8:54 pm

Everyone at my work seems to call it a sEErocco. I've always called it a SHIrocco.

It seems to come from Italian and Greek origins. Any of our members from that part of the world like to shed any light on the pronunciation?

Midlife · Post by **Midlife** » Tue May 12, 2009 9:11 pm

SHHH -ROC - O

Midlife

gingerscotsman · Post by **gingerscotsman** » Tue May 12, 2009 9:12 pm

Many people at my work pronounce it SCirocco. I have been varying between this and SHirocco.

TheDon · Post by **TheDon** » Tue May 12, 2009 9:30 pm

The German pronunciation is SHirocco

hama · Post by **hama** » Tue May 12, 2009 11:31 pm

Clearly I'm the only one here pronouncing it the way I do: si-RO-koh, with the "si" sound identical to the "si" in "sit" rather than the alternatives here, which frankly sound bizarre to me, "see" as in "(take a..) seat".

ZephyR · Post by **ZephyR** » Tue May 12, 2009 11:50 pm

I seem to recall the Mk 1 & 2 models were always call SI_rocco - which is what I've bee calling the current model. However I have noticed that most of the VW dealers and other staff are calling it SHI_rocco. Maybe there has been an edict from head office at VW instructing staff on their preferred pronunciation.
Looking for definitions on the web gives "n. hot dry wind originating in the Sahara and blowing across the Mediterranean Sea into southern Europe " - not particularly Italian then.
However most pronunciations offered on the web go for the SHI_rocco option. But there is an alternative spelling of Sirocco.
Personally I say SI_ence (Science); SI_ssors (Scissors) so its SI_rocco.

CTRnutter · Post by **CTRnutter** » Wed May 13, 2009 8:59 am

I say Sir Rocco lol

but I think its supposed to be pronounced http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/scirocco

owen316 · Post by **owen316** » Wed May 13, 2009 10:30 am

hama wrote:Clearly I'm the only one here pronouncing it the way I do: si-RO-koh, with the "si" sound identical to the "si" in "sit" rather than the alternatives here, which frankly sound bizarre to me, "see" as in "(take a..) seat".

Same as me then

Evil Derboy · Post by **Evil Derboy** » Wed May 13, 2009 11:56 am

owen316 wrote:
hama wrote:Clearly I'm the only one here pronouncing it the way I do: si-RO-koh, with the "si" sound identical to the "si" in "sit" rather than the alternatives here, which frankly sound bizarre to me, "see" as in "(take a..) seat".
Same as me then

And me. Sirokko

nickp · Post by **nickp** » Wed May 13, 2009 1:34 pm

If I see one shoot by when I'm out it's Sirokko...ko....ko as in Ulrika...ka...ka

Midlife · Post by **Midlife** » Wed May 13, 2009 9:56 pm

CTRnutter wrote:I say Sir Rocco lol

but I think its supposed to be pronounced http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/scirocco

Think I was closest then rofl

wigit · Post by **wigit** » Wed May 13, 2009 10:00 pm

i am sure Evil Derboy has modified the pronounciation to include '####ing b##tard' in there given his woes

filo1908 · Post by **filo1908** » Fri May 15, 2009 1:18 pm

hi guys, im'italian, it pronounces scirocco, with the italian sc, i believe it's difficult for you english guys to pronounce it well...but probably the easyest way for u is to say sherocco....

Katmadam · Post by **Katmadam** » Mon May 18, 2009 9:32 am

I say "My precious" like Gollem in the Lord of the Rings.....
no, i always pronounced SI-ROCCO, but it looks like it should be SHI-ROCCO.... that's what I'm told.

Kat

Turbo · Post by **Turbo** » Mon May 18, 2009 10:46 am

i hear alot of people callin it SIRocco but i call it SHIRocco and others call it that white vw over there

ZephyR · Post by **ZephyR** » Mon May 18, 2009 7:21 pm

filo1908 wrote:hi guys, im'italian, it pronounces scirocco, with the italian sc, i believe it's difficult for you english guys to pronounce it well...but probably the easyest way for u is to say sherocco....

OK as you may the defining authority on this are there any other Italian words beginning with "SCI" that we might be familiar with and can use as a guide ?

Mind you as a scirocco is a warm wind from the Sahara we might be better off asking some Bedouin tribesman for a definitive answer

JohnC · Post by **JohnC** » Tue May 19, 2009 6:31 pm

Way back when i was considering the purchase of a MkII Scirocco, the only way I every heard it pronounced was Si-Rocco, and often the 'i' was very subtle, sounding more like Sss-rocco.

But I agree, I've heard a large percentage of people (but still not a majority!) pronounce it Shu-rocco.

As long as people don't point at mouth 'Golf' I'm not bothered

Perhaps the best new number plate would be. .. SH09 OCO.....

true · Post by **true** » Thu May 21, 2009 7:30 am

Italian origin or not I'm going to pronounce it like a good old Brit! How many people pronounce Bolognese properly?!

S-rocco with a hard S for me, kind of like the way I'd pronounce 'suppress' (S-press). Sirocco at a push (incidentally, the alternative spelling of the wind)

Or, if you want to be anal: sɪ̈ (ə)'rɒ,kəʊ

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