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Silly question - How do you pronounce "Leonberger"?
« on: January 21, 2006, 10:01:05 pm »
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Re: Silly question - How do you pronounce "Leonberger"?
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2006, 10:04:18 pm »
Here..just click on pronunaction and it says it for you
http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/leonberger.htm

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Re: Silly question - How do you pronounce "Leonberger"?
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2006, 02:35:50 pm »
This solved the Newfoundland pronounciation issue for me as well.  For years I couldn't get a straight answer from breeders or showers, so I finally asked a friend from Canada how to pronounce that word.  He told me the correct pronounciation of Newfoundland is "New-fun-LAND".   It's not "New-fin-lind" or "New-FOUND-lin" or "Newfun-lund".   Check out this link, pretty informative, super handsome Newf Pics (check out the picture of Jydekompagniet`s Apple-Jack "Jaki" - what an amazing looking Newf!), and it has the pronunciation too:

http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/newfoundland.htm
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Re: Silly question - How do you pronounce "Leonberger"?
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2006, 09:01:48 am »
*sigh* I'm just to lazy to do all that.

So, a Leonberger is a "Leee Oh" to me.
A Newfoundland is a "New-fee"
and a Great Pyreneese is a "Peer"

Sometimes I just wish dog breed names were as easy as to say as the "Pug"!

tee hee.

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Re: Silly question - How do you pronounce "Leonberger"?
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2006, 05:33:28 pm »
*sigh* I'm just to lazy to do all that.

So, a Leonberger is a "Leee Oh" to me.
A Newfoundland is a "New-fee"
and a Great Pyreneese is a "Peer"

Sometimes I just wish dog breed names were as easy as to say as the "Pug"!

tee hee.

LOL  I totally agree!  :D
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Re: Silly question - How do you pronounce "Leonberger"?
« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2006, 07:43:55 pm »
i always said "lund" ooops  :-[  :D :D :D now to teach people not to say "ROCKweiler"  ::)

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Re: Silly question - How do you pronounce "Leonberger"?
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2006, 10:17:11 am »
Check out the way they say Great Pyrenees. To think all of the major dogs shows on TV say it wrong ???
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Re: Silly question - How do you pronounce "Leonberger"?
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2006, 12:14:44 pm »
Check out the way they say Great Pyrenees. To think all of the major dogs shows on TV say it wrong ???

I've never heard it said that way before. I wonder which is correct.

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Re: Silly question - How do you pronounce "Leonberger"?
« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2006, 06:11:15 pm »
that is what i thought it was....i get that a lot from people wondering how to say Dachshund. some say Dash hound. some say a weird combination of dox hund (which is right) and dash hound (wrong) some just give up and call them weanie dogs, because they dont know how to say it!

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