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Sher 11-05-03 05:55 PM

How do you pronounce Weider?
 
As in Joe Weider fitness products?

Is it wider?
Is it weeder?

Sher

Debbie S. 11-05-03 05:57 PM

It's Weeder
 
:)

FitBoop 11-06-03 01:14 AM

ROTFLOL
 
OK, so it's really late and maybe I'm punchy, but I can't help thinking, "where's Joan?" Wiener is usually pronounced weener, not winer, right? :)


(Yes, I know the question was wieder, but at 1:15 am, it looks a lot like wiener).

HelenJeannette 11-06-03 01:39 AM

I think it's spelled wEIder, making it wider, if it's pronounced at all like German.

e before i makes a sound kind of like a long i, and i before e makes a sound like a long e sound. Though if the name's been Americanized all bets are off - and I've never heard the name being said as in Joe Weider.

lissalaurel76 11-06-03 01:47 AM

It should sound like wider, but they call it weeder.

ARTYGIRL 11-06-03 02:47 AM

It's definitely WEE-der.

emr

lounsbury 11-06-03 06:32 AM

I agree with Lissa and Helen -- I'm pretty sure it's "Weeder," but the authentic German pronounciation would be "Wider" (well, technically, "Vider" ;) ).

Pratima 11-06-03 02:33 PM

Based on almost nothing, I somehow thought it was pronounced "VEE-der." :D

Messe 11-06-03 02:45 PM

Musically speaking...
 
Weeder, wider,
Veeder, vider,
Let's call the whole thing off.

LOL, I'm silly today! :D

FitBoop 11-06-03 03:16 PM

LOL Martha
 
Duh, it is Weider, isn't it? I have heard people talk about him (like Cory Everson) and they pronounced it Weeder.


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