Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago

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A recent video of mine caused quite a stir. But I wasn't prepared to be picked up on my pronunciation of "Gestapo". Had I made an embarrassing mistake? So I checked. And as it turns out, I hadn't; but things are a lot more complicated than I imagined.

Chapters:
00:00 Gesstapo, Geshtapo
01:19 The Interanational Phonetic Alphabet
02:10 Dictionaries and documentaries
02:54 Online arguments
03:22 What is the standard?
03:49 Phonotactics and syllabification
05:18 Three syllables
06:45 Still no clarity

Music:
"Hot Swing"
by Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com
Creative Commons Attribution licence

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