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Subject:Re: User Friendly?? Pronounciation of "diesel"
From:Andrew Grebneff
Date:Fri, 19 Mar 2004 23:42:13 +1300

>At 10:51 PM 3/18/2004 +1300, Andrew Grebneff wrote:
>
>>By the way, a german acquaintance of mine pronounces it "dye-zel".
>>Perhaps Raimund Feussner could comment? Is "dee-zel" incorrect?
>
>In German, as far as I know, the second vowel of a two-vowel set provides
>the sound.
>
>Mary

So Kiel is "keel" and Keil is "kyle"?

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