<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY= ="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Greetings,<BR> <BR>              In = Ontario, about is prounced "aboooowwt": house; "houwwwuse" :town; towwn. I c= all it the Ontarian "O".<BR> <BR> Julia,<BR> Reading, PA<BR> <BR> In a message dated 1/16/04 11:46:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, edoss@utm.edu = writes:<BR> <BR> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT= : 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Hey Terry,</FONT><FONT COLOR= ="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 P= TSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:= #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0= ">It's pronounced "carrrrrrrrrrr" and "termater" in Northwest Tennessee.</FO= NT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff= fff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR= > </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:= #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0= ">Elwood</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND= -COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LA= NG="0"><BR>   <BR> Elwood Doss, Jr., RPT<BR> Piano Technician/Technical Director<BR> Department of Music<BR> 106 Fine Arts Building<BR> University of Tennessee at Martin<BR> 731/587-1152<BR> ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<BR> <BR> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT= : 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"= BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 F= AMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">----- Original Message ----- <= BR> <B>From:</B> <A HREF="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">Farrell</A> <BR> <B>To:</B> <A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> <BR> <B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 16, 2004 6:04 AM<BR> <B>Subject:</B> Re: Pronunciation of KNABE?<BR> <BR> <BR> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: = #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"= >Hmmmm..... On the east coast you say? Did you hear that perhaps while drivi= ng in your caaaah? Or maybe while eating a tomater?   ;-)<BR>   <BR> Terry Farrell <BR> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: = #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"= >----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean-Jacques Granas" <<A HREF="mai= lto:jjgranas@zigzag.pl">jjgranas@zigzag.pl</A>></FONT><FONT COLOR="#00= 0000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE= =12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:= #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0= ">To: "Pianotech" <<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org= </A>></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND= -COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LA= NG="0"><BR> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:= #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0= ">Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 6:39 AM</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK= ="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY= ="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:= #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0= ">Subject: Re: Pronunciation of KNABE?</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK= ="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY= ="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: = #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"= >>Hello there,<BR> ><BR> >It is strange that no one seems to have mentioned it (maybe I missed it.= ..),<BR> >but the word Knabe is a German word meaning "boy". Ttherefore, the way i= t is<BR> >pronounced (and by "it is" I don't mean that it's Holy Writ) derives fro= m<BR> >the German pronounciation which, at least in this particular case, seems= <BR> >like something we can manage. That explains why the "K" is pronounced, a= nd<BR> >also why the final "E" is made to sound like "UH" or "EH"-like. That's h= ow I<BR> >always heard it pronounced (on the east coast at least).<BR> ><BR> >Hope this contributes something worthwhile to the discussion.<BR> ><BR> >Jean-Jacques Granas<BR> ><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKG= ROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Aria= l" LANG="0"><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKG= ROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Aria= l" LANG="0"><BR> <BR> </FONT></HTML>