>>>>Here in Austin we have Manor (May-nor) Road, that lead to the town of Manor (May-Nor). We also have the town Elgin (El-gin) but in Houston there's Elgin (El-jinn) Street.
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>>>>There's also Manchaca (Man-chak) Road and the town of Manchaca (Man-chock-a).
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>>>>And I won't even start up on the bastardization of the German, Czech and Spanish names/words around here....but I'll give a couple of examples...
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>>>>We've got Kay-nig (Koenig) Road, the town of Bernie (Boerne) and the town of Green (Groene)
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>>>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"
>Actually, the oe is the English replacement for the umlaut 'o' (the 2 dots over the 'o') and, as I was told to pronounce it "Shape your lips to make the 'o' sound and say 'er' but only think about the 'r'. So it works out to Ke(r)nig (with lips forming an 'o' for the first vowel.

Aye, I know about the umlaut. It was obviously dropped for the anglo-saxon world as we didn't have it in our alphabet, and certainly the typewriters. Your description of the pronunciation sounds like I "see" it and tried to describe.