Pronunciation of KNABE?

[Farrell]

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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