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by monerozcash 205 days ago
That's interesting, I'm not originally German but went to school in Berlin since I was 7 and always heard it pronounced as "Haaps-burk".

I'd think this is just because of how final obstruent devoicing works in German, to me it just seems like the obvious natural way to pronounce the word.

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Devoicing is more common in northern dialects

https://youtu.be/9-BBgc_uBZQ?t=1m11s

Seems to be there tho just very subtle

EDIT: it's why GP is not "steffi1977" XD