Pronunciation of KNABE?

[Elwood Doss, Jr.]

In German, the K is always pronounced a K before an N.  I thought everyone
knew that!
Elwood
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of KNABE?


> THAT is my question - why is the "K" pronounced?
>
> Terry Farrell
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Phillip Ford" <fordpiano@earthlink.net>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 5:31 PM
> Subject: Re: Pronunciation of KNABE?
>
>
> >
> > At 07:14 AM 1/15/2004, you wrote:
> > >We say KUH-NAH-BEE, but I've heard the German pronuciation as
> KUH-NAH-BUH.
> > >What does everyone here say?
> > >
> > >John Minor
> > >University of Illinois
> >
> > These derned foreigners.  Why don't they change their names to something
> we
> > Amuricans can pronounce?  Knabe ist ein deutsches Wort for boy or lad.
> Why
> > didn't he change his name to Mr. Lad or Mr. Boy or something?
> >
> > Anyway, since he didn't, and since the pianos were made in Baltimore,
I'd
> > say that makes it an American name by default, so why are we worrying
> about
> > how they pronounce it in some other god forsaken country.  So, this
makes
> the
> > K silent and the e on the end an indication that the a ought to be long.
> So it should be
> > pronounced NAYB (rhymes with ABE, as in Lincoln - a real Amurican, gosh
> > darn it, with a name everyone can pronounce).
> >
> > anon.
> >
> >
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