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How on earth does one pronounce the title?

posted 15 years ago by Violet_Loves_Iliona
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I assume it's a German word - I'm guessing it's Pass-shen-day-leh?

Is anyone here a native German speaker?

Cheers :)

Violet

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[–] and_then_some 15 years ago

it's PASH-IN-DALE

Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage and make a Northwest Passage to the Sea

[–] Violet_Loves_Iliona 15 years ago

Thank you, and then some! :)

Violet

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[–] and_then_some 15 years ago

no worries hahahaha

Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage and make a Northwest Passage to the Sea

[–] Laurent Mousson 14 years ago

Passchendaele is west Flanders, that is the North-West of Belgium, so it's not German, but originally a Flemish (closely related to Dutch) name.
Passchendaele is the French- and English-language spelling, Passendale the Flemish one.

[–] and_then_some 14 years ago

thats cool I didn't know that!

Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage and make a Northwest Passage to the Sea

[–] tommy_angelo38 14 years ago

Passion-dale. It's really not that hard.

[–] and_then_some 14 years ago

thats easier....hahaha didn't think of it that way! hahaa

Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage and make a Northwest Passage to the Sea

[–] Godfrey-222 14 years ago

SH-I-TE

[–] bryangrant86 14 years ago

It's Belgian. And it's pronounced 'passion-dale'. Try it.

[–] Bluehawk2008 14 years ago

In the actual Flemish it's probably like "Pah-shen-day-leh", but in English people just say Passion-Dale.