[rollei_list] Re: Pronunciation
- From: "dnygr" <dnygr@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 16:52:09 -0500
We have the definite answer. It's Roll-eye.
Doug
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From: "Jeff Kelley" <jlkphoto@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-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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