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Pronunciation
"Brightling" 66%  66%  [ 19 ]
"Bretling" 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
"No credence to pronunciation change always was "Brightling" 34%  34%  [ 10 ]
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wessa
PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 8:23 am 
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WatchFred wrote:

and Wes - "breit" not only means "wide "; the Urban Dictionary would translate it as "stoned".


Stonedling?

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WatchFred wrote:
Breitling is pronounced BrightLing - and has always been.

it's the German name of a rather unattractive small fish, a sprat. maybe that's why they now produce such huge watches, compensating ?

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Now the SO II makes sense to me.

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I find it a stretch to claim that this thread was intended as an April Fool as it started on he 31st, but........

This is one of the funniest threads in a long time!
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I didn't claim it was and I was serious, I think I saw in on Wikipedia then someone took it down.

But hey who am I to reign in the joy with "facts"
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wessa wrote:
WatchFred wrote:

and Wes - "breit" not only means "wide "; the Urban Dictionary would translate it as "stoned".


Stonedling?

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That's an Amsterdam, CO or WA amount of stoned.
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coltstrong wrote:
I didn't claim it was and I was serious, I think I saw in on Wikipedia then someone took it down.

But hey who am I to reign in the joy with "facts"


I never said that you did claim it, it was suggested by another post.
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Wow, and all this time I thought it was pronounced "breeetling"
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coltstrong wrote:

That's an Amsterdam, CO or WA amount of stoned.



I am from Amsterdam , but i never managed to get THAT stoned !!!! ;-)

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To pronounce it correct in deutsch (German) you have to roll the "R."
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