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Originally Posted by Carmeow  I studied music in college and sang many songs in german, so I recognized Biewer as a german word, but it never clicked that people actually pronounced it traditionally. I just assumed it was viewer, what an american I am   |
I'd not worry my pretty little head about it, though. lol One of my biggest peeves is watching cooking shows and the 'chef' pronounces jalapeno (hall-ah-pay-yno) 'hall-ah-pee-yno". I love spicy chilis! But, they're supposed to be the food 'experts' and can't get it right...I wonder if I want to eat their cooking? lol
Maybe it's my long ago past HR work...I just feel it best to say things like people's names correctly for the language, if possible. My own former last name was butchered so often I could always tell they meant me by the rude utterances sounding nothing like the name...even by people like doctors office staff who saw me weekly during pregnancy. I always said it for them...they just never bothered to try to get it right. 'Course, our own 'language'
is such a mish-mash of other languages that lots of our words have more than one pronunciation, so...no wonder we're confused!
