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submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

You'd want to pronounce it closer to as it is in German to be accurate.

(/ˈvaŋkəl̩/, VUN-kell)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, but I'm seven and a half years old and American.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Your account would then exist in violation of COPPA and should be banned.

(Yes, I'm aware you are not being serious.)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

Huh. TIL.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

so you pronounce it like a chinese?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

汪克尔

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

I don't think you understand how LITTLE that clears up the pronunciation