Mistakes
The name "Wankel" is incorrectly pronounced as "WANK-el". As the engine was developed in Germany, it is pronounced "VAWNK-el". (This is fairly standard in the U.S., or other English. MANY names, places and more are pronounced differently than in the original locations. Starting with Volkswagen, for that matter, correctly pronounced "FOLKS-vaag-en", not "Volks-wag-en", or "PORSH-Uh" rather than "PORSH" for Porsche. So seems inappropriate to single out one "mispronunciation".)
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Famous quotes containing the word mistakes:
“We are compelled by the theory of God’s already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existence of evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions—especially selfish ones.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)
“So long as a person who has made mistakes ... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at him.”
—Mao Zedong (1893–1976)