Could it be pronounced /mju:k/?This looks like a surname rendered in a format that doesn't accept umlauts, in which case it's probably ['mykǝ] - though if the name has been anglicized for several generations the [y] might have become a more English-sounding /u:/.
b
Would you make it rhyme with 'duke'?
Also, some say:
"We pronounce it Mickey like Mickey Mouse" (emphasis added)
What do you think?
WT
To pursue the analogy further, you should add a schwa to the end; in German (which I suppose this is) an e at the end of a word doesn't have to be followed by r to represent a sound - so whatever you do with the vowel sounds, 'Moecke' has two syllablesCould it be pronounced /mju:k/?
I´m just comparing it with Mueller /mju:lə/.
Could it be pronounced /mju:k/?
I´m just comparing it with Mueller /mju:lə/.
Ha, that 'midge' (that's what 'Mücke' or 'Muecke' means in German), not only stings, but is also difficult to pronounce for English speaking people.
Please go the the following site ... and you will hear the correct pronounciation in German.
'Muecke' and 'Mueller' = same pronounciation
Thanks, BobK. I found that pronunciation of Mueller in the English Pronouncing Dictionary (Daniel Jones).
I´ve got the 15th Edition, 1997.Publication date? He died before I studied 35 years ago (under a student of his). ;-)
b
I´ve got the 15th Edition, 1997.
It gives two pronunciations: /mju:lə/ and /mʊlə/.
is used; after all an /m/ followed by a long U usually makes /mju:/ in the Br E pronunciation of English words - mucus, munificent, ammunition, mural, Muriel, music, mute...
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