I don't think there is one correct answer. If you call the shop in Paris, they answer the phone with the french version, however Lou Deeter wrote me off-line to say that his source says it is pronounced Zinger, like the yiddish term for someone who sings. Keep in mind that Alex was a Hungarian Jew and the original pronunciation was most likely different from what they are using at Rue Victor Hugo.
Mike Schmidt Stirling, NJ USA
On 1/16/07 10:43 AM, "Art Link" <artlink@columnssanantonio.com> wrote:
> Here we go again!! I hope you have not been mispronouncing Jaguar,Mercedes
> Benz,BMW,Audi, Volkswagen, etc. Art Link,San Antonio,Tejas,Estatos Unidos
>
> hersefan@comcast.net wrote: Jan Heine with me always pronounces it like the
> sewing machine - maybe thats cause he gave up on trying to change me years
> ago.
>
> More accurately, how would it be pronounced in Hungarian? That is where Alex
> Singer emigrated from when he went to Paris.
>
> Mike Kone in Boulder CO
>
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> From: Michael Schmidt
>
>> Alex Sahn-gher. Nasel "a", soft "gh"
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>> Mike Schmidt
>> Stirling, NJ
>> USA