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View Poll Results: How do YOU pronounce diesel? With a 'C' or 'Z'? | |||
dieZel (z as in zebra) | 28 | 68.29% | |
dieCel (c as in niece) | 13 | 31.71% | |
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poll: how do you say diesel?
I have had a few different arguments with people about this, friendly of course, but I just wanted to see how others pronounce it.
Thanks David
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In German, the letter 's' is pronounced like we say 'z'. Phonetic spelling would be deezul.
BTW, the Diesel engine is named after its inventor, Rudolph Diesel. Which is why I always capitalize it.
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He also conceptualized a slow fuel injection process, and thus a slow burn. His engines were very low-powered for their size, and he steadfastly refused to try a fast injection/fast burn design. When that was tried (very shortly after his death), the people who did then came to realize just how much potential the compression-ignition engine had. A little bit of semi-useless trivia for ya |
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Thats DOCTOR Diesel!
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I had a roomate in college who pronounced it "Day-sull," with a strong southern like accent.
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I pronounce it: "Jah-nawf-ski"
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your all wrong, it is pronounced oil burner!
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deezull
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