Prounication of bimmer?

[BigKriss]

I've never heared of someone call a BMW as a "bimmer". Is it only me? When chicks ask me what I roll in, I say a "beammer" or "bee-mer" like high beam headlight.

What's the deal?

Regards

Kristian

[shogun]

http://www.boston-bmwcca.org/referen...mer-beemer.asp

[632 Regal]

i say BEEMER

[Dave M]

I've never heared of someone call a BMW as a "bimmer". Is it only me? When chicks ask me what I roll in, I say a "beammer" or "bee-mer" like high beam headlight.

What's the deal?

Regards

Kristian

and he could answer, he'd probably say dead mammals, fish guts or deer $hit. To my knowledge he's never had a date, so you may want stick with bimmer

Couldn't resist,

Dave M

[DaCan23]

Beemer is for BMW Motorcycles

Bimmer is for BMW Vehicles

[632 Regal]

Beemer is for BMW Motorcycles

Bimmer is for BMW Vehicles

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[bimmerd00d]

i say bimmer like it's spelled, not beemer.

[Zeuk in Oz]

It all depends on what school you went to !
Hang on, silly me, I'm not allowed to end a sentence with a preposition so that must be "It all depends on to what school you went". Or should that be "It all depends on to which school you went"?
Shame no-one will understand it !
Dare I say it also depends on in which country you live. (There, avoided the preposition at the end - can anyone make sense of it? )
I say Bimmer, not Beemer or Beamer.
However to my ears. a Kiwi trying to say Bimmer would sound like Bummer, and if the same person was saying Beamer it would probably sound to me like Bimmer !
A Pom with a Cockney accent saying Bimmer would sound like Bim-muh to me.
I dare say a Texan saying Bimmer would sound like Beeeeemeeeer ! If he said Beemer it might sound like Beeeeeeeeeeemeeeeeeeeeer !
Dare I say it is all in the ears of the beholder - to coin a phrase !

[632 Regal]

ok enough of this crap....

main posters need apply here, first time I wandered on here I asked if it was spelled Bimmer or Beemer, the later I thought was correct and I was told that Bimmer is for cars and pronounced as Beemer.

Not knowing anything about this old car evolution I went with what people told me and from what I heard in every movie I ever saw...BEEEEMER.

now after this is all hooked up with the proper pronunciation can we decipher the car

"Jaguar"?

I say "Jag you are" cause thats what I think it should be.


whatever LOL

[jplacson]

Well, old-school purist BMW fanatics set a distinction (this mainly came from the BMW biker groups)

A BMW bike, is known as a Beamer, or Beemer... pronounced as BEAM-er
A BMW vehicle, is known as a Bimmer... pronounced as Bim (as in rim) -er.

TBH, the 'bimmer' pronunciation sounds really...REALLY funny to me. Makes me sound like I don't know how to zpeaken-ze-englich.

Even though I know it's supposed to be 'bimmer'... I don't really bother making the distinction, and have always said 'beamer' for both bikes and vehicles. I think only the Chris Bangle BMWs should be called "Bummers". :lol: This will be my new campaign for 2005. To coin the name "Bummers" for the Bangle Bungle Designs! :lol: