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Old 05-31-2007, 02:50 AM
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Originally Posted by MysticCat View Post
Your grandmother is close to right, Jennie, and your professor is wrong, cg. Z in German is pronounced "ts" (like in Mozart) so that it's ALTS-highm-ers. (The z and the h would be in two different syllables -- Alz-heim-ers.)

At least, based on standard German pronunciation, that is probably how Herr Doktor Alois Alzheimer said it.
I should have read ahead - LOL.
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