[rollei_list] Re: Pronunciation
- From: "Jeff Kelley" <jlkphoto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 14:45:21 -0700
What we need is a recording of Franke arguing with Heidecke, then we'd have
the definitive answer!
Jeff
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> At 04:11 PM 5/28/2008, Dennis Purdy wrote:
> > Sorry for this stupid question. I would have never guessed that
> >anyone would not pronounce Rolleiflex like Roll E Flex. Roll Film
> >Reflex. But it seems there are a great many who pronounce the word as
> >Raughlie or Rawlie. Or Raughlieflex. I have been assured that is
> >the way it is pronounced in Germany. Is that true? It seems there
> >are even those who say Rrawl eye or Rawl A.
>
>
> Dear heavens!
>
> As a general rule, German pronounces two vowels falling together by the
> second one. Those, "Rollei" is properly pronounced "roll-eye" in English
> and not "roll-ee". Pronounce the i, not the e.
>
> A Germanophone would probably pronounce the o further back in the throat
> than would an Anglophone but this varies a bit by region.
>
> Marc
>
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
>
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