In Reply to: Re: Exactly posted by TheHappyBurgermeister on January 05, 2025 at 17:57:00
Copenhagen. People who want to sound sophisticated often pronounce the "hagen" like the Haagen in Haagen-Dazs ice cream. Where they get that .... is anyone's guess. Probably from the ice cream.
I don't speak Danish, but I used to party with a couple of Danish au pairs, and my Danish friend confirms this: The Danish pronunciation of Copenhagen, is something akin to "kyoo-pen-HOWN" (the last syllable is emphasized and rhymes with pow). That's what I've been told on multiple occasions.
Whenever I hear the Haagen-Daz pronunciation of Copenhagen, I just got to roll my eyes.