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RE: beemers

So is there supposed to be a difference in pronunciation, as well as
spelling? I've always heard and said "bee-mers", except in a few cases
of people unfamiliar with the marque.

Cheerio,

James Nelson...

> From: Ted Crum [mailto:tedcrum@domain.elided]
>
> When I started working with BMW cycles in the early 60's, they were
> Beemers. When I started working with BMW 700 cars latter in
> the 60's, they
> were still Beemers. 1600's, 2002's; still Beemers. The ugly
> word Bimmer was
> not to be spat from the sneering lips of the Hollywood/Marin
> yuppy who made
> our cars infamous until the late 70's. The general public calls them
> Beemers, as do many of us who refuse to yield to small-minded post-hoc
> rulemakers.

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