How do YOU pronounce Biewer??

[shelimcallister]

Originally Posted by sugarmamma

By next week we will be a family!!!

So excited for you and Sugar!

[sugarmamma]

Originally Posted by Deadbug

Well my stupid is showing. I always thought it was viewer as well!
Might gorgeous dogs though. Don't they also call them "parti" yorkies?

Parti is different (carrying the piebald gene I think) but I would LOVE someone to fully explain it to me

[Deadbug]

Same here sugar. Some day I'll have me a parti girl! I just need to know more about them first.

[JMuedog]

I'm always calling it Beye-were... lol I'll never be able to say it properly...

[sugarmamma]

Originally Posted by JMuedog

I'm always calling it Beye-were... lol I'll never be able to say it properly...

That's a new one on me too. We all say it differently

[Jennyms319]

Originally Posted by nanahas3

Until I was corrected i called them Buuu Erss lol.

Well that's what it should be !!!!

[navillusc]

Originally Posted by Jennyms319

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Until I was corrected i called them Buuu Erss lol.


Well that's what it should be !!!!

Maybe so...lol...but not true in Germany. German's pronounce the letter "w" like we in the USA pronounce the letter "v".

[capt_noonie]

Originally Posted by alaskayorkie

If it's spelled biewer, I'm pronouncing it biewer -- viewer with a B.

I'm gonna have to go with Mike here. Although... I do end up correcting people mispronouncing japanese and Italian names here at the bike shop all the time.

[alaskayorkie]

Originally Posted by capt_noonie

I'm gonna have to go with Mike here. Although... I do end up correcting people mispronouncing japanese and Italian names here at the bike shop all the time.

Sweet validation!

Although I'm watching a hockey game where the Canadian goalie is named "Roy," pronounced Wah. :O

Don't use an r if you don't want us to say r!

[sophias mommy]

Originally Posted by alaskayorkie

If it's spelled biewer, I'm pronouncing it biewer -- viewer with a B.

That's what I've been saying too!!
I didn't even realize there were other ways that people pronounced it lol

[navillusc]

Originally Posted by sophias mommy

That's what I've been saying too!!
I didn't even realize there were other ways that people pronounced it lol

Anything can be mis-pronounced, but "Biewer" is a German last name...for which the dog was named, so I pronounce it the same way the Germans do. I'd want my name correctly pronounced...I'd take the time, make the effort, do the same courtesy for others and learn to say it correctly...but that's just me. Of course, I did live in Germany for several years, too...and have friends from Germany, so I'd also get beat up for saying it wrong...how's that for incentive?

[Carmeow]

WWait...so its NOT viewer with a B??? Holy cow, I've been hiding under a rock!

[navillusc]

Originally Posted by Carmeow

WWait...so its NOT viewer with a B??? Holy cow, I've been hiding under a rock!

I'd say 'no' since it's a German name and in Germany, "w" is pronounced like "v" is in the USA. Tricky, I know, 'cuz no one (except many German class ) teaches us how Germany (or any other country) pronounces all the vowels and consonants.

[Carmeow]

Originally Posted by navillusc

I'd say 'no' since it's a German name and in Germany, "w" is pronounced like "v" is in the USA. Tricky, I know, 'cuz no one (except many German class ) teaches us how Germany (or any other country) pronounces all the vowels and consonants.

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

[capt_noonie]

Originally Posted by navillusc

Anything can be mis-pronounced, but "Biewer" is a German last name...for which the dog was named, so I pronounce it the same way the Germans do. I'd want my name correctly pronounced...I'd take the time, make the effort, do the same courtesy for others and learn to say it correctly...but that's just me. Of course, I did live in Germany for several years, too...and have friends from Germany, so I'd also get beat up for saying it wrong...how's that for incentive?

I agree, and I try, but German is so hard for me!

I'd like to hear people pronounce "chow mein" correctly for once!