Who remembers these ? ...

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

knew they weren't a figmet of my imagination

[NY]

Until the packaging was opened, I was expecting them to be chocolate cigarettes, rather than convention squares of chocolate in a cigarette-like box. I bet it took some effort in those days to animate the boxes "walking" along.

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

I loved them

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

OK found the chocolate and the silver walkie talkie under the floor just need to find the book with the time travelling children now and I will be happy ....

[Andy Bennet]

Frightfully pohsh voice that says nessles not NessLay

No wonder us ruff types never got edufercated proper

[Scott]

I thought it used to be 'nessels' but I wasn't sure if this was a colloquialism. Not my imagination then.

[Fredxx]

+1

I don't recall seeing squares of chocolate in a cigarette-like box.

[gareth evans]

It was definitely Nessels when they had their creamery here in Chippenham.

And I am sure that in the days of The Milky Bar Kid the TV adverts all use to say Nessels Milky Bar.

[JNugent]

"Nesslay's Milky Bars"...

...said no-one, ever, until the Swiss parent company started to get uppity.

[NY]

Yes my recollection is that Nestlés' name (on Milky Bars etc) was pronounced Nessles in UK adverts until about 20 years ago when the correct French (Swiss-French) pronunciation made it to the adverts in the UK.

I wonder whether non-English speaking countries are as scrupulous about pronouncing English brand names correctly rather than using their own local written-to-spoken rules.

Another one is Volkswagen:

Voolkswaggon or Follksvargon?

I have heard quite a lot of people pronounce Seat (Spanish VW-owned car brand) as seet (as in something you sit on). Even I know it is Say-at. I presume that is based on Spanish pronunciation of this (in Spanish) made-up acronym from Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo.

[Owain Lastname]

I did not recognise the French car name the first time I encountered it in Scotland.

Pyoo-joe.

Owain

[Scott]

I believe Hyundai is supposed to be hee-un-dee.

And Toyota did not use the name MR2 in French-speaking markets :-) .

[JNugent]

:-)

There's a good argument to be made that SEAT should be pronounced "Ess Ee Ay Tee", just as we say "Bee Bee Sea" rather than "BuBaK".

[Jimmy Stewart ...]

[Chris J Dixon]

But do you remember sweet cigarettes?

Chris

[Fredxx]

Very much so, as I thought I had said. White sticks with a dab of red and the 'hot' end.

Funny we don't seem them any more :-(

[Steve Walker]

You can still buy them, but there is no red end and they are not labelled as cigarettes.

I have a memory of chocolate ones being available at one time though.

[Max Demian]

Why isn't the W in Daewoo usually pronounced? And why begin it with D when Koreans pronounce it starting T?

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

wrapped in white rice paper...yummy

[Tim Streater]

Woss this? All you lot after your Junior Smokers Kit, eh, with liquorice dogends?