Thread: Pronounce "Solingen"

Originally Posted by WireBeard

I believe it is made in Europe (Germany, Netherlands...?)

You would say it with a drawn "A" as in the long version of Amen, not the long vowel "A" as in Cake, but more like the "A" in Car, but drawn out a bit (there's 2 of them in there, remember!).

Yes......his last name was pronounced with the a's drawn out. He was Dutch "bats eyelashes"...... from South Africa.

I think I only know one oddball word..... "swarpin" .....chuckle. Y'all know what that means ?

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Originally Posted by LX_Emergency

Actually. This is not so true for the German language. German is a lot more phonetically solid.

Solingen is an area/city. It's pronounced like So (as in So so) Ling (as in the way a chinese name would sound) en. (the sounds is close to And....but without a D so like "an" I suppose.

Thank you for the clarification there LX i have heard it said a few ways and seeing as your closest my way of saying it is similar to yours

So-ling-en

regards,simon

In the south we call it 'Germany', a great place to buy great razors.