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On the BBC news this evening, they were telling about this lady running for some elected position in Germany; Angela Somebody. I have only ever heard this name pronounced
An (as in, an apple) - jel-luh. However, the news lady pronounced it Angle (as in, 90º) - uh. Is this the British pronunciation, or was she saying it that way because that's the way the German lady pronounces her name?
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That would be an approximation of the German pronunciation, not the British.
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I think you must have misheard. My friend Angela who lived in Germany for many years tells me some pronounce it the same as in English and some with a hard 'g', making it an-gel (as in girl) -uh
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Short of "Angelika," I think.
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In standard German it would be pronounced with an ng as in English singer not as in English finger. I did hear one native German speaker pronounce it with the finger ng. Probably dialectal variation.
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> However, the news lady pronounced it Angle (as in, 90º) - uh.
That's pretty much sounds right to me except you must of not heard the last '-la' or the news reader lopped it off ... so you get something like 'ahn-gl-la mer-cle'. The English news readers I've heard say it always manage a pretty close pronunciation rather than just resorting to the English name.
But many in Germany know her as 'Angie' (like the song yes), which Germans pronouce more like 'Ängie'.
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FWIW, my former sister-in-law's name (the in-laws were from the Bonn area) was pronounced with the ng as in "singer."
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I have a friend named Angelika in Germany, and she pronounces her name /aNgElIk@/, though because she speaks French, we sometimes call her Angelique /a~Zelik/.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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I think you must have misheard. No, the news lady said it twice: Angle-uh. The way Dr. Mengele's name was pronounced in The Boys From Brazil [shiver], but with a different first syllable, of course.
Angela Merkle, that's right; thank you. Is Chancellor the highest office in Germany?
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Equivalent of Prime Minister. I believe they also have a President. I'm not sure what the exact distribution of duties is.
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> No, the news lady said it twice: Angle-uh
Right. Misread your original post there. I've only heard it pronounced with a hard 'g' in German, btw. And that's 'Frau Merkel' to you Jackie;-). I've had to look at a circa 30 m banner of her hung in the window of the CDU building for numerous weeks which proclaims 'A New Start'. If they say so.
> Is Chancellor the highest office in Germany?
Yup. The 'president' of the government is more like a chairman in Germany - high up, but not the main public figure.
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Unless I am mistaken, the Chancellor is head of government, the President is Head of State. As in France, India and Israel, where the President is chief ribbon-cutter.
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> where the President is chief ribbon-cutter.
or in the US, where the President is Chief nutter-butter...
I know, I know, but I figgered this one wasn't going to make the upgrade anyways...
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