How to pronounce "Baja" ? · Aussieveedubbers

ryana89 · 11 Oct 2009, 11:16 am

In an arguement about how to say Baja (as in Baja Bug). Is it said how its spelt like baa-jaaa or is it said baa-haaa?

thanks😂

Smiley · 11 Oct 2009, 11:21 am

It is pronounced Ba-ha. Slap anyone up the side of the head who says it differently. And tell them to look up Baja in Mexico to see where they got their name from.

Smiley

Yogie · 11 Oct 2009, 11:21 am

it is definitely baha
Yogie

ryana89 · 11 Oct 2009, 11:54 am

Hahahah ill have to slap my self then smileyman😂

Bookwus · 11 Oct 2009, 1:08 pm

Hiya Ryan,

It's baa-ha.

In Spanish baja means (roughly) under or lower than. So, Baja California is Under California and that makes sense when you look at the map. Of course, the term Baja as it's used with cars comes from the overland races held in Baja California.

11CAB · 11 Oct 2009, 1:35 pm

Bookwus wrote:In Spanish baja means (roughly) under or lower than.

Rather ironic really considering a Baja Bug is over or higher than a normal bug.......😂

MY68VW · 11 Oct 2009, 2:01 pm

But under or lower than a normal off road car.

11CAB · 11 Oct 2009, 2:09 pm

That depends.... I've seen some baja bugs that make 4wds look small...... 😂

colonel mustard · 11 Oct 2009, 2:12 pm

ryana89 wrote:In an arguement about how to say Baja (as in Baja Bug). Is it said how its spelt like baa-jaaa or is it said baa-haaa?

thanks😂

"lame - ha"

bajachris88 · 11 Oct 2009, 2:27 pm

just like a stock strut super bug in the dirt hey?

😁

ryana89 · 11 Oct 2009, 2:43 pm

colonel mustard, i'm pretty sure one of the 10 comandments is "thou shall not criticise or speak of a VW car/part in a negative way"🙅

Ryan😂

68AutoBug · 11 Oct 2009, 5:09 pm

Bookwus wrote:Hiya Ryan,

It's baa-ha.

In Spanish baja means (roughly) under or lower than. So, Baja California is Under California and that makes sense when you look at the map. Of course, the term Baja as it's used with cars comes from the overland races held in Baja California.

Hi Mike,

I have never heard it called Bar Har in Australia...

always Bar Jar or occasionally Badger... [yikes]

No Spanish spoken over here.. lol

and no one has been to BAJA in California...
where the Off Road Races were held....
and don;'t know
it has nothing to do with the height of a car... lol

I suppose they will continue to be called a Bar Jar in the Australian language ...😊
😊😊😊

cheers

LEE

djnee · 11 Oct 2009, 5:28 pm

Deffo pronounced Baa Haa

Same as Fajita isn't pronounced "Faa Gee Taa" (another Mexican word) but "Faa Hee Taa" instead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fajita

I rest my case... lol

bajachris88 · 11 Oct 2009, 5:43 pm

I always been calling it bar jar lol.

Baha sounds more fun :P its like naming a car after a slurred lound laugh... lol

Bahahahahhaa❗

Baja Wes · 11 Oct 2009, 6:13 pm

I always call it Ba-ha, and so does everyone else I know. The only people I hear call it bar-jar are bogans who don't know any better 🙂

bajachris88 · 11 Oct 2009, 6:14 pm

ohhh ouch! 🤓

Yogie · 11 Oct 2009, 6:21 pm

Baja Wes wrote:The only people I hear call it bar-jar are bogans who don't know any better 🙂

What is worse though is when they are told the correct way to say it, they still don't make the effort.

Yogie

ryana89 · 11 Oct 2009, 6:23 pm

I'm making the 'effort' to say it right now😂😂

Ryan😁

ryana89 · 11 Oct 2009, 6:49 pm

Baja - Bar jar🤪👍

Ryan😁

bajachris88 · 11 Oct 2009, 6:55 pm

hahaha.

its a mad world :P

matberry · 11 Oct 2009, 8:17 pm

Ba Ha . nothin else would be right.

shaihulud · 11 Oct 2009, 8:33 pm

Oh! Is that so Lee? No-ones been to Baja (pronounced Baha).

So I didn't go to Valley Centre in SoCal and stay with Bruce and Winnie Meyers for a few days in 1998, then I didn't go down into Baja California with the Manx Dune Buggy Club, then I didn't spend some time at Mike's Sky Ranch on the way to Margaritaville, where I didn't stay at Pete's Camp on the beach, where I didn't get to drive a Tow'd which didn't have a Corvair engine in it and then I didn't get to visit Lake Hanson on the way home from "Wasting Away in Margaritaville".

Hmmm? I wonder what I was doing at that time?

Maybe I then didn't buy a Manx SR and then ship it home.

Hmmm! I wonder where I did get it from.

It's all a great mystery to me.

colonel mustard · 11 Oct 2009, 9:57 pm

ryana89 wrote:colonel mustard, i'm pretty sure one of the 10 comandments is "thou shall not criticise or speak of a VW car/part in a negative way"🙅

Ryan😂

pretty sure.... no.

squizy · 11 Oct 2009, 10:33 pm

Juan, Jose, and Jesus are turning in their graves at the moment. Or should that be Huan, Hose and Hesus for those who need some help.

bajachris88 · 11 Oct 2009, 10:43 pm

squizy wrote:Juan, Jose, and Jesus are turning in their graves at the moment.

Yea...

Cause half the guys here really need to learn to keep their pants on... 👍

beetleboyjeff · 11 Oct 2009, 11:23 pm

I must say, when I was a yoiung bloke and the first DB&HVWs magazine came out, I read about 'baja' bugs and wondered how it was spelt. I had read where the name came freom (the Baja desert where they were first developed), and for quite a few years, I pronounced it either 'Baja' or 'Baajaa' . I later saw a doco on TV about the Baja Pensinular and the Baja desert, and I finally heard it pronounced 'Baahaa'. Ever since then, I have always pronounced it that way.

1303Steve · 12 Oct 2009, 12:13 am

Hi

And while we're talking about pronunciation. Bathurst is pronounced Bath urst, not Bath hirst like most Mexicans say it, but they cant even say where the F1 race is held in Melbourne properly, the say Elbert Park, not Albert Park and Alvis Presley.

Steve

68AutoBug · 12 Oct 2009, 12:16 am

OK...

My Humble apologies...

Someone has been to Baja California ...

just no one I know...

cheers

LEE

PS: Should have said IMHO - In My Humble opinion...
in which case i was wrong...

1916baja · 12 Oct 2009, 7:49 pm

I call my car all sorts of things....

oont baba. "oont" being cause its german, "baba" because thats what the old lady at work calls it.
Shitebox. When it breaks.
Good lookin. when its clean.
tough. when its covered in mud.
A drag car. when i put my little wheels on it and take it to warwick.
my wife has a whole list of other names for it but they are all kinda offensive 😁

Generally i just call it my Baja, pronounced "BA-HA"

Some people who drove them in the 70's call them "choppers" too.

Mick

Bookwus · 13 Oct 2009, 12:31 am

¡Santa María!

Todo este apuro cerca de una poca palabra. En español nosotros no dice el sonido de J como usted hace en inglés. Pronunciamos J como usted el prounce H. Todas nuestras vocales tienen solamente sonidos cortos, así que una A se pronuncia siempre como AAH. Eso significa que BAJA es BAA-HAA pronunciado.

68AutoBug · 13 Oct 2009, 2:09 am

1303Steve wrote:Hi

And while we're talking about pronunciation. Bathurst is pronounced Bath urst, not Bath hirst like most Mexicans say it, but they cant even say where the F1 race is held in Melbourne properly, the say Elbert Park, not Albert Park and Alvis Presley.

Steve

Tonite on SBS1 Steve...
the Bat-hurst holden V8 - vauxhall... and the maloo ute...
but hearing bat hurst 10+ times..... Yikes

only reason I knew what they were saying...
as I had the captions on the screen....
otherwise I wouldn't have though of bathurst.....

it seems on NSW people know how to pronounce Bathurst...

IMHO..

LEE

beetleboyjeff · 13 Oct 2009, 6:06 am

Yeah Lee, I saw that on top gear. It took me 3 or 4 goes before I worked out what they were saying. They said it more Barth-urst I reckon.

ancientbugger · 14 Oct 2009, 4:38 pm

Who really cares as long as you know what you mean. If we lived in Mexico or another Spanish speaking country it may really matter. And No Shaihulud you didn't do any of those things, you've not been taking your tablets again have you😂

TheMiniMan · 14 Oct 2009, 11:07 pm

Well,,, funny as it may sound, to be more specific/precise,,, the correct pronunciation for it is actually "Ba-Hy-a"

the "J" is pronounced with a sort of--> "HY"

Like "San-Juan",,, same deal,,, pronounced a bit more like "San_Hwaan" but should have a sort of a "Y" in there like as in "San-Hyuan"

sorry but it`s true,,, But it`s always just been Baja-Bug in Aus really hey? so whatever,,, i`m not being picky ,,, just thought that if it`s going to be corrected, then best to correct it "Correctly" yeah???

:-) & i`m the "MiniMan",,, not the "Baja-Bug" man,,, crickey, you guys should know more about this stuff than me,,, what`s with that ???

:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

68AutoBug · 15 Oct 2009, 4:04 am

beetleboyjeff wrote:Yeah Lee, I saw that on top gear. It took me 3 or 4 goes before I worked out what they were saying. They said it more Barth-urst I reckon.

I thought they were talking french or italian... lol🙅🙅

only for the subtitles.... lol

LEE

donn · 15 Oct 2009, 5:14 am

Dilligaf

ancientbugger · 15 Oct 2009, 8:49 am

I believe in the Uk there was a baja kit called a 'Badger'

ratty 63 · 16 Oct 2009, 12:01 am

ancientbugger wrote:I believe in the Uk there was a baja kit called a 'Badger'

Oh man! Thats going to throw a spanner in the works 😀 😂

R 🙂

shaihulud · 16 Oct 2009, 10:10 am

ancientbugger.

I thought I asked you to keep my tablet problem a secret.

Or did I? Or did I not? Heaven forefend! This is so confusing.

Maybe I didn't not do all those things by going or not going to Baja (pronounced there as Baha).

Oh, dear! Like Winnie the Pooh I'm a bear of little brain and now it aches so.

I need another tablet.

Richard.

bajachris88 · 16 Oct 2009, 10:17 am

Maybe we should call them dubs for security when discussing face to face haha... :P

HappyDaze · 16 Oct 2009, 10:32 am

I thought a bar jar was the container used for tips at the Pub!

Cheers, Greg