Is it pronounced Testar-oh-sa or Testar-ah-sa?

Quick question, might just be more of a US vs rest of the world thing, but how do you pronounce Testarossa? Long-o or a schwa-o?

 

normal -o and then double -s, so a hard -s
so testar-oh-ssa but not testar-ah-sa
but this is then german or italian

 

Haha - funny I`ve wondered recently how it`s really pronounced aswell.

To me it`s always been Test-a-ross-a but I`ve heard Brits pronounce it Test-a-rose-a. That sounds too posh for me though

I doubt my pronounciation is right though as I`ve always said Jalpa when it`s Yalpa, Jarama instead of Yarama and Count-ash instead of Coont-ash.... and I`m supposed to be English....

Love the way you guys say aluminium though.

You say A-loo-mi-num and we say Al-you-mini-um ! Amazing we can even understand each other.

Oh and my pronounciation for the Lancia Beta is.... Rust!

 

Have an Italian friend say it to you in person for the correct pronunciation.

 

Téssssssssstá (Testa, italian for "Head") - rôssssssssssá (Feminine of Rosso, italian for "Red").

The "R" is pronounced with your tongue loose in the mouth, not as anglosaxon speakers typically pronounce the "R".

Kind regards,

Nuno.

 

Hey hey hey, good suggestion Red:

testarossa pronunciation: How to pronounce testarossa in Italian

Nice female voice too... Looks like that settles it!

TES-ta-ROHS-sa

 

That`s great - it would make a fantatsic sat nav voice too!

Saves me having to go into the Italian bakery with a piece of paper with all the car names on.

Dom.

 

When people ask me "what kind of car is that?" I pronounce it -

DONTFUKINTOUCHIT!

 

We pronounce it differently because we spell it differently. One i instead of 2, yielding one fewer syllables.

 

Nuno, that is a brilliant encapsulation of why Italians are cooler than the rest of us, forever. It's the position of the tongue in the mouth with that soft rrrrr, and it's also the insouciance while saying it. A waiter in a smalltown bar in Puglia can refer to a Testarossa, in the way you outline, and it will have more of a proprietorial swagger than that of its actual owner who is a non native speaker.
And that's the same swagger that gave us the strakes, and, well, everything else we love about Italian art and design.
So to pronounce Testarossa properly, be reincarnated as Italian. Any Italian. Even the Communists in Italy loved Ferraris.

 

Testa-ross-a

 

I use "Tess-ta-row-sa", same difference but my voice isn't as nice.

On another translation site she pronounces it, "TAY-sta-roo-ssa"
http://www.reverso.net/translationresults.aspx?lang=EN&direction=english-italian

Step #1, Type in Testarossa
Step #2,Click the EN>IT flag,
Step #3, Click the blue speaker above the translation on the right.

 

Darius, fantastic post, that's exactely it. A kind of magic

Kind regards,

Nuno.