>>>I worked with a guy named Doug Koenig and he pronounced it kay-nig. I suspect that is the authentic German pronunciation.
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>>And I suppose you're Mr Bay-ann (French name recall)?
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>>I think the "oe" diphthong is a bit like a soft "uurr". So said quickly in English it would sound like "ay"
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>Sure does. Any vowel in any language in the world has an -y or -u appended to it.
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>Speaking English as a first language is such an impediment to the later ability to learn any other language that you can't even begin to understand (ok, preaching to the quire here - most of the participants here managed to get around that obstacle). I once had to wait in the hall for about half an hour at a community college, listening to a class sweating their vocal chords at their first Italian lesson. After 30 minutes, they still haven't learned to pronounce A, E, I, O and U. I wanted to close the door so I wouldn't listen to their suffering.

We use Knorr brakes here, for trains - it's pronounced Kuhnorr, no way to get the 'uh' out of there.
For a while, I sang in a choir, trying to improve my pronunciation. Everybody was way better than me at singing and, of course, English. Then, one year, we got to sing "Time to say good bye", with the Italian lyrics... The choir director, an Englishman by the name DaSilva(!), professional piano player, but working as a software developer(!), and a few others (~3 out of 70) were quite good, but they could not change anyone's else pronunciation one bit during the ~20 practices we had.