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> Freid It's pronounced as 'Freid' but spelled as 'Fried', as in "the bankman got fried" (being held over the coals.) That's how I remember it.
by LarryMullins 4y ago
> Freid
It's pronounced as 'Freid' but spelled as 'Fried', as in "the bankman got fried" (being held over the coals.) That's how I remember it.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoYou'd think I'd notice Wikipedia telling me there's no pages with that term. Proves my point though, and I have no real need to remember it.
- Oxidation 4y agoIndeed, in general, German words with "ei" or "ie" sound like the second letter. So "Lied" (song) is more like "leed", but "Leid" (suffering) is "lyed". This is the reverse of how English pronounces "lied" as in the phrase "lied to investors".