>You support every prejudice a European has about US people trying to spell out or pronounce some word or sentence in a native European language (apart from English, of course) :-). The stubbornness with which you keep to "Hock Fliesh" in this thread is brightening up my day.
>Thank you!
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>Lennert
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>(I guess my way of using the english language makes you smile now and then :-)

But credit where credit is due, they always get it exactly half right. They never pronounce it (well, at least the German names - French, Italian et al fare worse) exactly as they would pronounce an English word of the same spelling, but then they never pronounce it quite right either. Z is never pronounced as ts, unless it's a tz; ei is usually pronounced as ee, not as uy etc etc. For example, "Zeit" is not tz-uy-t, it's z-uy-t, but hey, at least it's not zeet or zate :).

I just wish I'd hear someone here pronounce tsunami properly. I mean, guys who can say the ts in pizza every time, can't say it when a word begins with it, so it's ssunami every time. How hard can it be?