There's not necessarily anything wrong with GAY-gen as the correct German
pronunciation. It really comes down to how you pronounce "gay"; there are
regional variants of English that pronounce the "ay" as a single vowel sound
(that's how it is in German), and others that make it a diphthong, something
like "ayee". If you say it the first way, you're going to be very close or
identical to the German pronunciation.
Chris
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob King" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 12:45 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Gegenschein - pronounce
Even though I learned to pronounce 'gegen' in my German classes as
GAY-gen I must defer to Bernd, a native speaker.
Cheers from the guy who can't seem to stop posting ;)
Bob
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