How do you pronounce "Knabe"?

[Faizal Ali]

Just wondering.

[pTooner]

Faizal Ali wrote:

> Just wondering.

Ku - nob- ee, you know, just like in "gnurled knob". ;-))

Gerry

[Jeff Harrison]

In article <F6yBM...@campus-news-reading.utoronto.ca>, "Faizal Ali"
<f....@utoronto.ca> wrote:

> Just wondering.

I have the feeling most people would give you the wrong answer because
they will pronounce it like the way they first heard it mispronounced. The
word is German and, pronounced in German, is "kuh-NOB-buh". The most
common mispronouciation is "kuh-NAA-bee".

OTOH, many Americans with German names (or their ancestors) purpously
changed the family name's pronounciation for various reasons and as far as
English speakers are concerned, the mispronounced version is then correct.
Ray Kurzweil is would be an example.

Anyway, back to finishing my Tor-TILL-la for lunch. : )

Jeff

[Anita Hsiung]

Jeff Harrison wrote:
>
> I have the feeling most people would give you the wrong answer because
> they will pronounce it like the way they first heard it mispronounced. The
> word is German and, pronounced in German, is "kuh-NOB-buh". The most
> common mispronouciation is "kuh-NAA-bee".

That is the correct pronunciation in English. We don't go
around saying Pareeh for Paris or Muenchen or Munich or
Moskva for Moscow, so why do we have to say Kenobi instead
of K-nahbee? ;^)

-A-

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[Glenn L]

Frank Weston wrote:
>
> I live near Bommer Hon, and I know.
>
> Frank Weston

I know I'm going to regret this Frank but I live in Bommer County and
the correct pronunciation is Balmer but go easy on the "L".

Glenn
pronounced Glen with a little longer "n" sound

[Frank Weston]

Anita Hsiung <Anita....@lmco.com> wrote in article
<36C37147...@lmco.com>...

> Jeff Harrison wrote:
> >
> > I have the feeling most people would give you the wrong answer because
> > they will pronounce it like the way they first heard it mispronounced.
The
> > word is German and, pronounced in German, is "kuh-NOB-buh". The most
> > common mispronouciation is "kuh-NAA-bee".
>
> That is the correct pronunciation in English. We don't go
> around saying Pareeh for Paris or Muenchen or Munich or
> Moskva for Moscow, so why do we have to say Kenobi instead
> of K-nahbee? ;^)
>

Although William Knabe was born in Germany, the Knabe company did not reach
it's peak until it was long in the hands of William's son's, who were both
American born. There are a lot of words taken from German, French and
other languages, even English that we Americans have adopted and used in
ways and with sounds that no native speaker would ever recognize. Names
are foremost in that category. We say 'em the way we like 'em, and I can
assure you that in Baltimore, the original home of the Knabe piano, the way
we say it is Kuh-naa-bee. I'm betting thats the way William's sons said it
also.

[Frank Weston]

Balmer is for North Baltimore where people can actually read and write.
Down South we have a hard time with our L's.

Frank Weston

Glenn L <gli...@NOSPAM.bcpl.net> wrote in article
<36C3A3C4...@NOSPAM.bcpl.net>...

>
>
> Frank Weston wrote:
> >
> > I live near Bommer Hon, and I know.
> >
> > Frank Weston
>
>

[Tom Shaw]

Good for you Anita. And, as an ex-employee of the Lockheed-California
Company may I say it is good to see someone from Lockheed on this ng.
Mergers et al aside.
TS

Anita Hsiung wrote:
>
> Jeff Harrison wrote:
> >
> > I have the feeling most people would give you the wrong answer because
> > they will pronounce it like the way they first heard it mispronounced. The
> > word is German and, pronounced in German, is "kuh-NOB-buh". The most
> > common mispronouciation is "kuh-NAA-bee".
>
> That is the correct pronunciation in English. We don't go
> around saying Pareeh for Paris or Muenchen or Munich or
> Moskva for Moscow, so why do we have to say Kenobi instead
> of K-nahbee? ;^)
>

[John S. Gray]

And I take care of an old upright in Baden, Ont. Sure enough, the locals
call the place BAY-den. It's just down the road from Petersburgh (?)
another one-post office town that hasn't seen a revolution since the
beginning of recorded history.

JG
getting bogged down in trivia, today...

[Dan Hanfland]

The Knabe being built today is pronounced "Young Chang".

John S. Gray wrote in message ...

[pTooner]

When I drive into Richmond I take the Powhite turnpike. The old time locals,
of course, pronounce it Po White. The newer politically correct types call
it Pow Hite.

Gerry

[Al Stevens]

I lived there on TDY in the 70s. Remember the nickle bridge? Is it still
there? Is the toll still a nickle? I was talking to a local who wanted to
start a garbage collection service in the Powhite area so he could call it
Po White Trash. He sounded serious about it.

pTooner wrote in message <36C98CE1...@geddings.net>...

[pTooner]

Al Stevens wrote:

> I lived there on TDY in the 70s. Remember the nickle bridge?

Yep

> Is it still
> there?

Yep

> Is the toll still a nickle?

Nope! I think it's .20 now, but it's not on my usual route so I've only been
across it once.

>

Like the line about PO Whilte Trash!

Gerry

[running...@gmail.com]

It is: Porsh-uh, not Porsh, consequently, the correct pronunciation of Knabe, IS NOT: Kenabee, but: Kenab-uh.

[Rob van der Putten]

Hi there

On 02/01/18 06:47, running...@gmail.com wrote:

> It is: Porsh-uh, not Porsh, consequently, the correct pronunciation of Knabe, IS NOT: Kenabee, but: Kenab-uh.
>

Actually;
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Knabe#Pronunciation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel#Audio_samples


Regards,
Rob