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Is it? I browsed a bunch of YouTube videos this way and no one said it like jagwire: https://youglish.com/pronounce/jaguar/english/us https://youglish.com/pron

• adastra22 3y ago
  It may be regional, but I was born and raised in Silicon Valley / SF South Bay, like Steve Jobs, and my parents and teachers all said "jagwire." I don't pronounce it that way myself anymore, but that's because if I say it I'm often talking about the car brand, and I know the brits pronounce it differently so I do the same. Do some google search for "jagwire" and you'll find tons of results about Americans pronouncing it that way. EDIT: The word comes from a Native American language via Portuguese. I'm not sure about the indigenous phonetics, but the Portuguese pronunciation is closer to "jagwire" than the British pronunciation.