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Originally Posted by LadyShea
ETA: Another example. My husband took German in high school. He pronounced ich sorta like ihckh...my coworker from Trier, Germany pronounced it more like eesh. Which is the "literary" form or whatever?
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IIRC, that's more of a north/south dialect difference, and I don't think either is considered more "standard." When I took German in high school, the kh/sh pronunciations were generally used interchangeably. I think a lot of Americans prefer the 'sh' pronunciation because it's less "ugly."