{"id":52089,"date":"2026-02-17T22:17:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/52089\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:17:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:17:47","slug":"do-old-people-pronounce-puzzle-like-puzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/52089\/","title":{"rendered":"Do old people pronounce &#8220;Puzzle&#8221; like [Puzle]?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gfdd0ownn4kg1.png\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p><em>(pic for engagement)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am currently reading a non-fiction book in which the narrator&#39;s father was raised in 1930-40s rural Eastern Prussia and therefore spoke fluent German (as in he was a native speaker).<\/p>\n<p>The narrator mentions him pronouncing the word &quot;Puzzle&quot; like [Puzle] (with the &quot;z&quot; as in German words like &quot;Ziel&quot;, &quot;Zentrum&quot; etc.)<\/p>\n<p>I was curious as to why he would pronounce it in this way, so I&#39;ve done some reaserch and literally all of the videos\/dictionaries online pronounce it in the English way.<\/p>\n<p>Nowhere can I find a video of anyone pronouncing it [Puzle]. <\/p>\n<p>My only theory is that he does that because he is either uneducated (I don&#39;t mean it disrespectfully), or older German speakers say [Puzle] and only younger folks say it the English way.<\/p>\n<p>He could be also just doing it for the attention.<\/p>\n<p>Thank You!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON --><br \/>\n<br \/>&#8212;<br \/>\nAviation365_<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(pic for engagement) I am currently reading a non-fiction book in which the narrator&#39;s father was raised in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[35],"class_list":{"0":"post-52089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@forums\/116088420679653801","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}