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Old 03-09-2008, 12:15 PM
 
Location: Central Texas
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The Mueller-Miller thing is because the family, the Muellers, pronounce in Miller, and they're still around to correct people!
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Old 03-09-2008, 01:01 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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When I first moved here I mispronounced so much that I was hesitant to even try to say some names

I pronounced H-E-B as a word I even tried to sound the "p" in Pflugerville when I spoke..oh to be a transplant newbie
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Old 03-09-2008, 01:59 PM
 
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Mexia (muh-HAY-uh)
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Old 03-09-2008, 02:04 PM
 
Location: Jollyville, TX
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Yep, the pronunciations here are unique! How about Koenig = (kay-nig) or Buchanan = (buck-cannon).
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Old 03-09-2008, 02:07 PM
 
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Someone told me that Brodie is pronounced brahdee. Is that true?
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Old 03-09-2008, 02:08 PM
 
Location: Central Texas
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Nope. Pronounced as it's spelled.
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Old 03-09-2008, 03:59 PM
 
Location: Avery Ranch, Austin, TX
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Great...now you have this soon-to-be-transplant from Uhlanna(Atlanta) worried about one MORE thing!
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Old 03-09-2008, 04:23 PM
 
Location: Austin
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HappyTexan...both of those are okay. My friends and I call HEB "the Heeb" and as AustinSteve pointed out, Pah-flugerville is quite common too...especially from Austinites not living there!
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Old 03-09-2008, 04:55 PM
 
Location: London, UK
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The Mueller-Miller thing is because the family, the Muellers, pronounce in Miller, and they're still around to correct people!
Pronouncing Mueller like "Miller" is probably the closest approximation we (English speakers) have to the original German version of the name, Müller, since we don't really have a ü sound in English.

So unlike most of the other examples in this thread, we're actually getting this one right when we Americanize it.
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Old 03-09-2008, 06:02 PM
 
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Mildly off topic...I only recently found out what the B in HEB stands for.
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