[meteorite-list] Gegenschein - pronounce

[Chris Peterson]

There's not necessarily anything wrong with GAY-gen as the correct German 
pronunciation. It really comes down to how you pronounce "gay"; there are 
regional variants of English that pronounce the "ay" as a single vowel sound 
(that's how it is in German), and others that make it a diphthong, something 
like "ayee". If you say it the first way, you're going to be very close or 
identical to the German pronunciation.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob King" <nightsky55 at gmail.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 12:45 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Gegenschein - pronounce


> Even though I learned to pronounce 'gegen' in my German classes as
> GAY-gen I must defer to Bernd, a native speaker.
> Cheers from the guy who can't seem to stop posting ;)
> Bob