Reading through the archives and just came across this. I found this interesting, because my mother was a french teacher. As some have noted it is pronounced "sah- boh ", but I don't think anyone noted that the accent is on the second syllable.
Another name of foreign extraction that we commonly come across is Speer. In german it is pronounced (approximately) "shh- pay -er".
Another name that you might be familiar with is L�wenbr�u (means lion's brewery). The closest that I can come to the german pronunciation using english symbols is " ler -ven-broyee".
Everyone, and I mean everyone I've ever talked to, listened to, or everheard says 'sabbit', like 'rabbit'. My dictionary says it has French origin. Could this mis-pronunciation be part of the anti-French movement?< !--color-->
Mais non, M'sieur. It's the product of American ignorance! The younger generation doesn't even know where France IS, let alone the fact that they speak a different language!!
According to a couple different articles I've read by well-known writers who have actually visited the factory, "Sako" is pronounced "Socko"...people look at me strangely when I say it like that rather than the usually heard "Sayko".
How about Franchi? I'm guessing it's "Fronki", but everyone seems to say that differently, as well.
Posts: 120 | Location: New Hampshire | Registered: 13 January 2004
The "good ol' boy" that I deal with at the gun store has a hell of a time with "Rigby".
An example: "Hey Ronnie! We got any of that Federal .416 Rugby< !--color--> ammo in stock?" I've tried to politely tell him that it's Rigby but he just keeps calling it Rugby! Amazing but true!!
This is a classic example of the choice between what is more important, correctness or being understood. Around here in Oklahoma when I correctly pronounce Sako ("Socko") nobody knows what the hell I'm talking about. Sometimes where you say something is as important has how you say it.....DJ
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Quote: Actually, the "eu" diphthong in German is pronounced in German as "oy"; in America we typically pronounce it as "I". Hence Budweiser's Annheuser-Busch as Anhizer-Busch here, instead of Annhoyzer-Busch. Other examples are Preuss(proyse)=Price and Scheue(Shoya)=Shy.
That's what I used to think. For various reasons, I now believe that the German pronunciation varies or used to vary considerably with the region and, perhaps, social class of the speaker.
Can any of our German friends straighten us out on this?
Posts: 2272 | Location: PDR of Massachusetts | Registered: 23 January 2001
I'm not German, but when my brother, who had studied German, ask for tea in the region of Germany where his motorcycle tour group was, he pronounced it "tay", as we were taught, they didn't understand him. When the people who didn't know any German asked for tea, they understood immediately. I used to have a neighbor who still had a very strong German accent, but when I imitated him, a German girl I knew couldn't understand me. When I would tell here what I had said in unaccented english, she would laugh and say, "Yes, some Germans sound like that".
Quote: I don't like french names anyway, wont say the same about there women.
Gringo, Two points to consider: 1. French women are where French men come from. 2. Have you ever seen a French woman raise her arm to hail a cab? Jeez, there's more hair under there than on an an Italian grandma's upper lip. And the smell. Talk about knocking a buzzard off a shit wagon...
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is L�wenbr�u (means lion's brewery). The closest that I can come to the german pronunciation using english symbols is " ler -ven-broyee".
