Ski-Doo kinda' caught on here but snowmobile took over right away and was followed even more quickly by "Sled." Two reasons.........and you need to remember this is the States.

First, "Ski-Doo" sounds pretty wimpy and lacks the macho sound. Snowmobile ain't great but Skidoo is the pits. However, SLED can be spoken with the correct amount of machismo in the same manner that "BIKE" means a motorcycle.

Second, and this should not surprise anyone, most of us dumbasses down here said Bom-Buh-Deer (like the guy who dropped bombs from a plane) for Bombardier and when we all found out WE were wrong, a general agreement was reached that no one would use that friggin' fairy sounding pronunciation on a bet, even if you owned three of them. It was a good thing Bombardier built a killer sort of weapon in their Sleds because otherwise they'd have bellied up in the US market in a heartbeat.

Sorry you got racked up Man!


Spaw