…jaguar?
The advertisements for the car by that name currently running have an announcer with a (what sounds to me like an obviously fake) British accent calling it a “Jag-you-ar,” which annoys me no end.
Do y’all really say “Jag-you-ar,” or do you pronouce it “Jag-whar,” like normal folks? Do you pronounce both the name of the car and the name of the animal the same way?
And if you do say “Jag-you-ar,” how do you pronounce “guava”?
TIA.
Jag-you-ar. Only ridiculously-pretentious people, and foreigners, go for two syllables 
Guava = Gwa-va
I suppose it’s only fair that Jag adverts should be foisting the ‘correct’ pronunciation on you, as Hyundai’s adverts here fairly recently started over-egging ‘hyun-day’, which nobody uses in real life.
Oh, and yes, the car and the animal are the same
Like normal folks? Excuse me, but I think you’ll find we invented the language. It’s you bloody colonials who’ve got it wrong.
Seriously – if it’s “jag-you-ar,” why isn’t it “goo-wah-va”?
'Cause they’re two different words, which don’t even have matching spellings?
How about Aluminum?
Almost every person I’ve ever met has pronounced it “All-lou-men-um” including non-Brits with British accents (mostly Africans, some Indians). Except for a few people I have seen on TV and one fellow named Nigel I knew years ago. They add an extra syllable as in “Al-eww-men-ee-um”.
Gracias
It’s not our fault that Yanks get confused by a mere typo 
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Ummm…
We meant to do it that way, it was intentional…
Yeah, that’s the ticket, it was on purpose. It wasn’t a typo, it was a statement…
Sure it was, just ask my wife, Morgan Fairchild, she’ll tell you…
– Slinks away quietly
Sure they do – isn’t the issue here whether “g-u-a” one syllable or two?
Not really - the English language is hardly the ideal place to start looking for consistency
You’re just not gonna let me have any fun at all here, are you? pout
Jonathan Pryce, who does all the Jaguar commercials I’ve ever seen, is Welsh.
Nope 
Here’s to hoping that Ford never decides to make an Al-eww-men-ee-um Jag-u-ar.
I’ve seen several without Pryce. There’s one with a couple in an art gallery or museum, looking at a picture. A jaguar speeds by, evoking no immediate reaction. Then one asks, “That reminds me – did you buy that Jag-u-are yet?”
I wanna see an ad that’s identical, except , instead of a jaguar, a big noisy beetle flies past them.
“That reminds me – did you buy that Volkswagen yet?”
And don’t even bring up the word “herb”.
I saw Paul Bettany on Conan and he said, “You say to-may-to, we say to-mah-to. We say po-tah-to and you say po-tay-to. You say “erb” and we say “herb” because there is a fucking “h” at the beginning.”
What about “honor”?
That explains why his English accent is dodgy then
You may be interested in this old GQ thread on the Pronunciation of ‘jaguar’.
We’re still largely Brit-based in our speech patterns here, but I’ve always known jag-yoo-uh to be the car and jag-wahr to be the big cat.