Friday 27 June 2008

A Very Tiny Rant


I know some beers are hard to pronounce and I do realise that people will often get the names of foreign beer wrong. But...... IT'S NOT "DUVELLE" it's simply Duvel. "Doo vil" would be something like it - it's Dutch (Flemish) not French and even if it was French, Duvel would not be pronounced "Duvelle".
It's particularly annoying when bar staff correct my reasonably correct pronunciation!
Now you know.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hehe... one would think. But I lived in Antwerp for five years and it's definitely pronounced doo-vell. Was just there in April... ahh Belgium. Best beer in the world! :)