Beemer is the right spelling.

[Bryan330i]

Just don't hate my user ID please

I don't see anything wrong with your user name Not that big of a deal.

 

[Beemerworld]

You are right Kirby.

Thanks Bryan330i.

 

[Bryan330i]

I think part of the issue is the difference in languages.

In English it's Bimmer, as in TIM, JIM, etc.

But in German the letter I is pronounce like the English letter E.

The German alphabet is pronounced:
A=Ahhh, B=Bay, C=Say, D=Day, E=Aaaa, F=Eff, G=Gay, H=Hah, I=Eee, J=Yut ......

so IN GERMAN the word Bimmer *would* be pronounced BEEMER.

Beemerworld, Wadula, other Germans here, am I right??

That sounds like plausible explanation.

I can’t remember hardly any German and at one time I could actually make out a fair amount of the language. I blew it in my younger years through late teens when I had a ton of chances to spend time in Germany being that I had family there. Any yea, I am like the only person in my family that has not been there, even my grandparents would go for 3-6 months at a time. What an idiot I was.

 

[CosmosBlack]

Just don't hate my user ID please

We love you Beemerworld, we'll just have to picture you on a motorcycle!

 

[CTBMW]

Didn't we sort this out last month?
Not as well as this month though.
I'll still visualise motorcycle, but won't flame now that I've had "language101". But I think someone is going to get "nailed" once in a while!!
WE now understand what's up. I just think those without a fair language background (me for example) will keep writing that a BEEMER is a motorcycle. (I did last month, with some others)
Something scooter will just have to live with. And if I forget-and flame....shut me up, and remind me of the idiosycrasies vis-a-vis BEEMER. (it will keep me quiet until the next time I forget)
-Mel

 

[MY2003-330CIC]

All this feedback from a simple question about posting a pic. I'll choose my next question more wisely.

 

[Big Daddy]

Don't flatter yourself, if you would look you'd see this thread is from 2004, clearly a three year old thread that you have revived for some reason???

 

[Average Jae]

its like the board knew you'd ask the question like 3 years ago..
we've been waiting for you PERRY about time you freakin showed up!!

 

[Kirby]

Don't take the criticism seriously Perry, it's easy to overlook the date on old threads.

 

[Doughnut]

In Australia, pronouncing "Bimmer" sounds so wierd, although i accept thats how its spelt. Actually pronouncing it "Beamer" sounds more like it fits better, any Aussies aggree?