Talk:Steuben County, New York

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Pronunciation
Do we have a source for the pronunciation ? The vowel in the second syllable is arguable, but I've never heard it pronounced with the accent on the first syllable. Powers T 21:09, 20 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I was thinking the same thing. Everyone I know says stu-BEN county. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.218.86.48 (talk) 23:37, 23 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I changed it to put the accent on the ben. I grew up there/family lives there and that's what they say. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.245.194.253 (talk) 21:12, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Also I found a source for stu-BEN: http://www.stargazetterealestate.com/Community/NY/Steuben/index.html

(the star-gazette is a local newspaper) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.245.194.253 (talk) 21:34, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

...and pronounciation in German
In march, the lithuanian user sol505000 changed the german IPA-pronounciation from to, stating "incorrect IPA - the nasal is alveolar only when the schwa is sounded, syllabic nasals assimilate to the preceding stops". That may be theoreticly correct, but isn't so in reality. As a native speaker of German, who has worked and travelled his life in all parts of german speaking countries, in high german I've seldom heard (lips closed after the last sound) and most often  (lips slightly open after the last sound). So I disagree with the statement quoted above, and would say that the original german IPA-pronounciation was right - I admit that the difference is small, and that in some cases of mumbling pronunciation also can heard, but nevertheless there's no need to call a mumbling pronunciation the regular one (or many, many IPA-pronounciations have to be adapted...). ThomasPusch (talk) 19:57, 11 September 2022 (UTC)