• BenLeMan@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Wandel & Goltermann is a German manufacturer.

    Wago is pronounced like virgo except the “vir” part sounds like the “vu” in vulture. Vuh-go, basically. But it makes sense that English native speakers would naturally pronounce it as “waygo”.

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      13 hours ago

      wtf, waygo is correct or w-ahhh-go (as a German) Where’s the vuh coming from in Wandel?

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        5 hours ago

        Ist für englische Muttersprachler geschrieben.

        Ahhh also works instead of uh, I guess.

        Ze German W and the English W are quite different, though, so that was my attempt to get that across. 😉