Backman or Barkman ?

[georgehgv]

Deliberately spelt wrongly but how do you pronounce Bachmann?

[Beep55]

the 1st word

[Terrier]

Barkmon

[georgehgv]

Mon? You scottish?

[Bufferstop]

German Barkmon, but as it's an Americanised, German name I'd say the Ba as in back, the ch as in the composer JS Bach, softer than the English ch and sounded from the throat not the tongue. It could just depend on which bit of the US it came from. The company who make TV capture cards is the worst "Hauppauge" something like hop-occh. Doubt many people would object whichever way you pronounce it.

[Terrier]

nah moosh, i iz savahn innit.

[SRman]

I know I am in the habit of saying "Barkman" but the general consensus seems to be nearer "Backman".

Then again, I grew up 'dahn sarf' and say 'darnse' and 'charnse' for dance and chance, whereas some of you northeners would say 'danse' and 'chanse' with a very short 'a' and Australians and Americans would tend to stretch the short 'a' a bit. On those grounds I'll just claim to pronounce it in my 'regional dialect'!!

[DonnyRailMan]

I`ll stick with Bachmann.

[trooper]

Does it matter ???

[georgehgv]

Does it matter ???

As a matter of fact I think it does, unless of course you want to sound ignorant when discussing the brand.

[Terrier]

i suppose i always say it "bach (slight scouse chchch ..ba-chchch) -mun". so that's bachchchmun?

[m8internet]

Deliberately spelt wrongly but how do you pronounce Bachmann?

Where do you get Backman or Barkman from?
Is it not fairly obvious it is pronounced the same way it is spelt?

See :
http://german.about.com/library/anfang/ ... g_abc2.htm

Perhaps this has a parallel to Loch, and how it is pronounced?
I love how ze Germans pronounce this, when even some Scots cannae

I know people with an English accent struggle to pronounce the ch
I advise these people to replace the ch with x and it sounds slightly better

[SRman]

Johann Sebastian Bax ... nope, I don't geddit!!

[Dragonfly]

True about it being a Germanic name, but it was founded in America, by Americans, who, as we know, throw away the "traditional" pronunciation of a lot of things. So it really does depend on how the American guy who founded it pronounced it. Probably Backman (the "a" in "man" being a schwa, not as in apple).

[thebritfarmer]

Just watched a video and the rep pronounces it back man