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Date:         Fri, 19 Mar 2004 23:42:13 +1300
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Re: User Friendly??  Pronunciation of "diesel"
In-Reply-To:  <AIEFIGCNNANNIHLNFBPECENPLEAA.vanagon@volkswagen.org>
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>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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