Pronunciation Guide

This is incorrect. One of the simplest ones out there:

DEH DOLL - it's not said exactly like the American pronunciation of "doll" because the "o" sound is slightly different in French, but it's close. This word is one syllable, not two.

 

It's actually more like: MOE-DEET

 

One of the most commonly mispronounced words is Cuir. It should be pronounced as:

QUEER - I kid you not, it's the French word for leather

 

dedolle is in esen, which is a flemish-speaking region of flanders, and would probably pronounce it with three syllables. i think that's the thing with many of these belgian names - there will be two ways to say it, both correct.

 

Considering the fact that Yuengling is the anglicized form of Jüngling the correct German pronounciation would require the German sound for ü (same as the sound for y in Swedish, with yngling being the Swedish form of jüngling) which an English speaker might have trouble with. Yueng is a chinese name (spelled with the latin alphabet) and the vowel combination Yue does not exist in the English language apart from the Yuengling family name as far as I know. But for an anglicized name I'd think the yingling pronounciation makes sense.

 

Ah crap, you are correct, sort of at least. There is no Flemish language, people in Flanders speak Dutch. I have no idea how you pronounce De Dolle in Dutch, I was thinking it was a French name.

 

"yeung" is ("e" before "u") is the far more common spelling of the cantonese pronunciation, which in mandarin is now usually spelled "yang" (which itself is pronounced more like "young" or "yahng" - there's no american "twang" in the "a").

 

Dieu Du Ciel- DEW-DUH-SEAL?

 

Locals pronounce Yeungling as LAW-GER.

 

Hrmm, how to do this one phonetically . . .

DYUH DOO SYELL

 

So true.
I went to a PA wedding recently. When I inquired about the selection, the woman behind the bar says, "Miller Lite or LAWGER?" So I get a lawger. Later, I go up to get another and I spot the eagle logo on the tap. I say, "Ill have a yuengling" and she gets this who-just-farted? disturbed look on her face, haha.

 

Say it with me now... GOO ZAH.

*GOO ZAH*

You don't wanna know how many different ways I've heard this said to me.

 

Eh, that's not a bad Americanized compromise, but the disyllabic pronunciation (i.e., the Flemish one) doesn't typically have a hard g like in the English word goo. It's more of a guttural, aspirated gh sound, like you're clearing your throat - but softer than that.

If you don't want to mess with the difficult initial consonant sound, then you're verging more into the monosyllabic territory of the French pronunciation, in which case I think it's fine for an English speaker to dispense with all pretense of accurate vowel production and, in barbaric resignation, just say Gooze.

GOO ZAH is a strange hybridization that simultaneously uses the French consonant and Flemish second syllable, and is therefore just as incorrect as GOOZE but WAY more pretentious.

 

BLOO - BOO - REEZ

Okay, got it!

 

"I'll have the hefe, please."

 

yeah, always a soft r. forgot to say that.

dead give away for being american is also pronouncing liverwurst with a "w", instead of a "v".