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I could be wrong,  but the announcers' pronunciation of Gfeller's name is kind of driving me nuts. 

They're using the "g" but I'm guessing it's silent.  

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  On 12/11/2022 at 10:37 PM, Ban Basketball said:

I could be wrong,  but the announcers' pronunciation of Gfeller's name is kind of driving me nuts. 

They're using the "g" but I'm guessing it's silent.  

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No, you're not wrong. It IS driving you nuts!

 

In german it would be mostly silent.

 

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  On 12/11/2022 at 10:50 PM, gimpeltf said:

No, you're not wrong. It IS driving you nuts!

 

In german it would be mostly silent.

 

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Thanks.  Having grown up in Minnesota I've seen far too many Norwegian and German names to not automatically see a silent letter in a name.

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  On 12/11/2022 at 11:37 PM, Dark Energy said:

No.  Is this supposed to be a joke?  You think his couch is supernatural?

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Of course also does G know how to pronounce it cause if he isn't giving the coaches, announcers etc accurate info then that could explain ...

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  On 12/11/2022 at 11:18 PM, Ban Basketball said:

Thanks.  Having grown up in Minnesota I've seen far too many Norwegian and German names to not automatically see a silent letter in a name.

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This all having been said- that doesn't mean this is how the family pronounces it any more.

For example, in German typically names with consecutive e-i (in either order) are pronounced skipping the first one and using the second (probably long). But Lehigh had Paul Diekel in the 80s and Owen Reinsel now. The families said Die-kel and Ren-sel. Reinsel told me they changed it generations ago (possibly well before the world wars as they were here that long).

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Again,  I could be wrong,  but there's nothing logical,  based on my background with seeing too many silent letters,  about it being pronounced with the G.

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  On 12/12/2022 at 12:42 AM, gimpeltf said:

This all having been said- that doesn't mean this is how the family pronounces it any more.

For example, in German typically names with consecutive e-i (in either order) are pronounced skipping the first one and using the second (probably long). But Lehigh had Paul Diekel in the 80s and Owen Reinsel now. The families said Die-kel and Ren-sel. Reinsel told me they changed it generations ago (possibly well before the world wars as they were here that long).

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Weird you say that! I have exactly one of those German names,  and I'm not sure I've ever heard them pronounced emphasizing the first vowel. It's always the second in my experience. 

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  On 12/12/2022 at 12:45 AM, Ban Basketball said:

Weird you say that! I have exactly one of those German names,  and I'm not sure I've ever heard them pronounced emphasizing the first vowel. It's always the second in my experience. 

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That's what I'm saying. Who knows what the family says as opposed to standard Germanic pronunciations?

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