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Pronunciation of 'Mössbauer'

AnteCantelopeAnteCantelope Registered User regular
edited June 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
It's been a few years since my German classes, but I'm studying the Mössbauer effect and would like to know how to properly pronounce it. I'm thinking Murs boy er, I know that ö is pronounced like 'ur', but I'm not at all confident with the au dipthong. Can anyone confirm that it's the same as 'eu', pronounced 'oy'?

Thanks.

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  • jclastjclast Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Murs (hard s like curse) bow (bow of a ship - now bow tie) er

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  • MovitzMovitz Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    The Ö is more like like the Er in "Err...no". But you cut it off before the r hits. English speakers have a hell of a hard time getting this right though, guess it's because that sound just doesn't exist in your inferior language :P

    Eu would be 'oy', you got that right. Au ain't the same though. It's more like the the ou in house

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  • AnteCantelopeAnteCantelope Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I always thought of ö as being the 'ur' in 'fur'.

    Thanks for the help.

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  • MovitzMovitz Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Glad to be of assistance

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  • jclastjclast Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Movitz wrote: »
    The Ö is more like like the Er in "Err...no". But you cut it off before the r hits. English speakers have a hell of a hard time getting this right though, guess it's because that sound just doesn't exist in your inferior language :P

    Eu would be 'oy', you got that right. Au ain't the same though. It's more like the the ou in house

    Heh. I never understood why so many people took Spanish instead of German in high school. German is much more fun and it's loads easier to learn as a primary English speaker.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    edited June 2009
    Token Swede reporting! (Also, I want my smörgåsbord back.)

    Ö sounds very similar to the eu in French "fleur". The Swedish "nörd" is pronounced very similar to "nerd". And means the same thing.

    [baʊ] is the phonetic spelling for bauer - the bow of a ship, not a bow ([boʊ]) and arrows.

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  • AnteCantelopeAnteCantelope Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Awesome, thanks. I have to give a presentation on the Mössbauer effect, and really didn't want to mispronounce it in front of a bunch of PhDs, professors, and such.

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  • TaGuelleTaGuelle Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    The ö sound is simliar to an o sound but you round the lips when you make it. Also you make the vowel from the front of the mouth not the back like an o. Hope that helps.

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