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Originally Posted by jmen24
AW,
When you pronounce Berlin the emphasis is on the E not the I, we are not in Germany.
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I'm old school. Pronounce it like the capital of Germany - the way it was originally before we entered WWI.
They were gonna change the name of the city after we got involved in the fight. But then they realized they'd have to print up all new letter head, invest in new signage, etc. Pretty spendy when the beancounters went into green visor mode and tallied things up. So some inventive soul suggested they put the emphasis on the other syllable to differentiate NH's Berlin from the Hun.
Honest to golly, that's a true story. Don't know what kinda bee the folks in Milan have in their bonnets.
