What the heck ?!? We live our Beamers!
Zed ?
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Mine’s still a Beamer. Sounds like sunshine and I like sunshine!Ter info from the world wide web ...
"A BMW is referred to as a beamer because it is slang that was developed back when BMW's only made motorcycles.
However, most people don't realize that beamer is actually an incorrect term for the car, and it should instead be bimmer.
BMW got its start with motorcycles."
I do not like Bimmer, .............. sounds way too much like Zimmer 
Tony.
Tony.
Well that’s a question of a-e...full in the gapsI do not like Bimmer, .............. sounds way too much like Zimmer
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You are probably familiar with this forum ....
21 jan. 2020 - Bimmerfest is the premiere website for BMW owners around the world with interactive forums, photo galleries and an invaluable resource into ...
21 jan. 2020 - Bimmerfest is the premiere website for BMW owners around the world with interactive forums, photo galleries and an invaluable resource into ...
What has arse got to do with it?
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Only ONE space, @t-tony - guess again!
Really?
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Back to the use of "zed". Apparently it dates as far back as the 14th century, and the French "zede" which became "zed" in Britain. It was also common in America, before the, umm, "unpleasantries" between the colonials and the Crown...
Yeah.....back then his name was Zed Clampet..............FrankieBack to the use of "zed". Apparently it dates as far back as the 14th century, and the French "zede" which became "zed" in Britain. It was also common in America, before the, umm, "unpleasantries" between the colonials and the Crown...
This went well off track . It was meant simply to find out how the members from different countries pronounced 'Zroadster' or 'Z3,4 etc'. You might assume that as it's an English language forum that users would pronounce Zroadster like most of the UK (zedroadster), but of course in the US they pronounce the letter 'Z' zee (zeeroadster). As Churchill noted ...' ...separated by a common language'.
Sorry @Shelly, but you can't just 'say' Z. The letter has to have a phonetic pronunciation and this is the same for all languages @Delk, which of course don't even necessarily have the same alphabet.
So the letter 'Z' is pronounced 'zed' in UK, 'zee' in USA, 'thayta' in Spain , so perhaps some of our non-english speaking members could tell us how they pronounce 'Z3' .
. It was meant simply to find out how the members from different countries pronounced 'Zroadster' or 'Z3,4 etc'. You might assume that as it's an English language forum that users would pronounce Zroadster like most of the UK (zedroadster), but of course in the US they pronounce the letter 'Z' zee (zeeroadster). As Churchill noted ...' ...separated by a common language'.Sorry @Shelly, but you can't just 'say' Z. The letter has to have a phonetic pronunciation and this is the same for all languages @Delk, which of course don't even necessarily have the same alphabet.
So the letter 'Z' is pronounced 'zed' in UK, 'zee' in USA, 'thayta' in Spain , so perhaps some of our non-english speaking members could tell us how they pronounce 'Z3' .
Oh dear, this winter has gone on far to long!!!!!
Mike
Mike
Solution: Pack up and you and Sandy meet @t-tony in Florida. If he's there during the school's spring break, maybe I can drive the ///M down there and meet all of you.......................hmmmmmmmmmm.............................Frankie
When is Spring break Frankie?
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Message from Sweden ! Z4 in Swedish is 'Seta fyra' , pronounced 'sairta feera'. Although apparently a lot of the younger Swedish use a combination of UK English and Swedish and say, 'Zed feera'.
Not sure yet. It's always around Easter. When's Easter this year?.............Frankie
I think good Friday is the 13th. April
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Cheers Dave, I new it was one or the other 
we were talking about it looking for flights the other day.
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we were talking about it looking for flights the other day.Tony.