>All the German volk that I hang around with call it 'Dee-zel' - same as the >word Syncro is really pronounced 'Zinc-ro' In fact my German friends give >me a lot of flack about how I say a lot of things. After all us Canadians >are a weird sort of people - we don't sound like Brits True >we don't sound like >Americans. Yoe reckon? > They die laughing when I say Volkswagen - they think it is a >total riot when I say that word. I stick to 'fow-vee' when I want to say >Volkswagen! Folksvahgen. |
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