It’s Hyundai, not Hyundai – say it properly, okay?

Apparently people in the UK pronounce Hyundai as “High un Dye”, and Hyundai wants to fix this. So it created this ad spot featuring the extremely popular Hyundai ioniq 5 electric car to teach people the right way to pronounce it.

The ad features numerous fake places that are named like the wrong way of pronouncing Hyundai in the UK – High n Dye hair salon, Highland Eye optical shop, Hawaiian Tie, and High End Pie bakery.

So how do you pronounce Hyundai? The correct way is revealed at the 20 second mark – it’s Hyun-day with the dai pronounced like day, and the Hyun more like the ‘un’-like pronuncation in spoon rather than sun.

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After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history.

 

Comments

  • Roti john on Jan 03, 2023 at 10:19 am

    Just like Proton, people pronounce it at Pro-Ton. But actually the correct way to pronounce it is “Pelo-Tong”

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  • UK Slang on Jan 03, 2023 at 10:36 am

    UK people has special slang, Kajang pronounced like “Ke-Jan”; Duck pronounced like “Dook”, etc.

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  • Then spell it how its supposed to be pronounced la. Since they using roman letters already. Hoonday or something. So misleading.

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  • alihms on Jan 03, 2023 at 11:18 am

    Noted, but I’ll stick to Malaysian pronunciation of Hun-Dai. Same goes to Pee-Jot (Peugeot).

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    • TongSamPah on Jan 03, 2023 at 4:49 pm

      I always though the -dai was pronounced “die” like in “daiso”, “daisuke” and other Japanese words. Hyun-Day sounds weird.

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  • Purtier on Jan 03, 2023 at 11:44 am

    I can say “Hyun” “Dey”

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  • makanbawang on Jan 03, 2023 at 2:26 pm

    Who cares?

    BMW – > Bee eM Vee
    Volkswagen- Folks vagen

    dont see these german marques correcting everyone.

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    • BOYRACER on Jan 03, 2023 at 4:50 pm

      Even mercedes they get it wrong..also Audi.. luckily there are many defunct german manufacturers..if not we are all going to pronounce them wrong

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    • pakcikbawang on Jan 03, 2023 at 4:51 pm

      cos they too busy correcting their cars in the workshop bro

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  • Deeeeeei apa nie… kelas bahasa ka?

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  • Punday user on Jan 04, 2023 at 1:28 am

    Punday sounds much better

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  • Annoynimouse on Jan 04, 2023 at 9:08 am

    Damnit! I thought it was Honda spelt wrongly…

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  • bahasa on Jan 04, 2023 at 10:31 am

    the problem for malaysians is we always read these brands using Bahasa method, so it makes matters worse.

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