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 we don't sound like
Americans.  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!

Go figure eh!?

David Marshall

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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of Joachim Beek
Sent: March 18, 2004 6:16 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: User Friendly?? Pronounciation of "diesel"

>Subject: Re: [VANAGON] User Friendly??  Pronounciation of "diesel"
>   From: Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
>
>By the way, a german acquaintance of mine pronounces it "dye-zel".
>Perhaps Raimund Feussner could comment? Is "dee-zel" incorrect?
>
Your acquaintance is having you on, or maybe he/she doesn't like diesels ;-)
Rudolph Diesel's name is pronounced "dee-zel" (and not "dee-sel" like some
do in the US).
Joachim