"Pavel314" wrote in message
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I googled "how do you pronounce Stihl" and found a few thoughts:

"1. The company named "Stihl" says "Steel".

2. The name "Stihl" isn't a conventional German word.

3. If the name was German, it would be spelt "Steihl".

4. If you were German, you'd pronouce it "schteel".

5. Again, if you were German, you wouldn't pronouce anything as
"still".

So, in the end nothing is correct.

Corrections:
1. The German word for steel is Stahl (pronounced as it looks.)
2. Stihl is indeed not a "conventional German word:" it is a
German family name (thus non-conventional, i.e. not obliged
to follow all the conventions of how German is spoken.)
3. German pronounces IE as ee and pronounces EI as eye.
Thus German Stiehl would be pronounced shteel.
4. Correct: German pronunciation of Stihl is also "shteel."
5. German as an adjective STILL pronounced shtill:
German for "Stop!" is "Stillstanden" pron. shtillshtanden.

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)