• Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    4 days ago

    mercedes

    In English’s defence, it’s not an English word. It’s a German company named after a Spanish name. And at least to my ear, the Spanish and German pronunciations also have 3 different Es. One helpful Redditor also provided an IPA guide to the German pronunciation, agreeing with my ears:

    mɛrˈtseːdɛs

    The “e” in the middle is long and stressed.

    Edit: I would also say, that most of the times it is even pronounced like this:

    məˈtseːdɛs

    But I can’t even begin to justify the letter c sounding like /s/, /k/, and /ʃ/.

    • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      məˈtseːdɛs

      Don’t know about other Germans but for me, the last e is a schwa. So it’s more [mɛɐ̯ˈtseːdəs] I think but I’m not completely sure.