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Cindy Hamilton says...
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> On Friday, November 11, 2016 at 11:56:48 AM UTC-5, Nancy2 wrote:
> > My German great-grandma said, "shpetz-ul," with a short "e."
> > That is the only I have ever heard it, around here in German-background
> > country.
>
> Amazingly, German has regional accents. How a given German pronounces
> things depends on where he's from.
>
> Shpate-zleh is about as close as I can come to reproducing how
> I was taught to prounounce ä (a-umlaut). It's somewhere
> between a long 'a' and a short 'e'.

Click the blue triangle he

http://forvo.com/word/spaetzle/#de