Once, and forever. The letter 'o' in Grob is pronounced
like Boat and not like Bob. The vowel sound in Bob
cannot be made in German using the letter 'o.' It
does not exist. To make that sound they would have
to write Bab or Bahb.

Grob means big, thick, coarse, uncouth, peasant-like,
etc.

At 13:00 09 February 2006, Damien Dyer wrote:
I have asked a German!
Interesting. In the US, pretty much everybody I know
pronounces it
Grow'b (long O).
is the correct way to say Grob!!!





At 12:36 09 February 2006, wrote:
Interesting. In the US, pretty much everybody I know
pronounces it
Grow'b (long O).

I guess that's the non-metric pronounciation!

More useless trivia: My glider is an LS6-b according
to the flight
manual. Yet everytime I see an LS in print in the
US it's called an
LS-6B, LS-4A, etc. Maybe because that's how we name
our military
planes (EA-6B, for example)?

And if a Grob 103 is a Concrete Swan - then a Schweizer
2-32 is an
Aluminum Overcast! Love that beast too...

This is bad - I need a thermal fix soon!

Cheers,
Kirk
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