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How do you pronounce Pitralon?

Correct. The Swiss "I" is usually always an "E" sound. I've always heard it pronunced Pee- traw- lone (as in "Lone Ranger", not "Lon Chaney" :biggrin:).
 
Pee - traw - lon would be quite right,
I never heard it with a "lone" but with a "lon" here in germany (similar language, different dialect though)
 
In German, the K would be pronounced, and the z would be hard, as in "pizza". The last syllable is a schwah so it's more subtle or diminished than the last syllable of "pizza".
 
(just jecked it their website)
Knize goes back to an austrian tailor named J. Knize who lived in 1858.
So his name would be pronounced with a strong "K"
/K/-neez-a

the last /a/ is hard to explain to non german speakers.
You can imagine it like the "se" in the wort "separation"

So it would be /K/-neez-/se/

The word Ten goes back to the royal english game polo
wich to Wolff and Dryden (former owners of knize ten) had been a symbol oh elegance.
The highest handicap in polo is called "Ten".

You can have a look for yourself here:
http://www.knize.de/history_1.htm
 
Pee - traw - lon would be quite right,
I never heard it with a "lone" but with a "lon" here in germany (similar language, different dialect though)

Yours would be the technically "correct" dialect, since Pitralon is originally German.

My ex girlfriend's family was Swiss, and her father used Pitralon exclusively. That was how he pronounced it, with the "lone" at the end.
 
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