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How do you pronounce Miele?

For years I always pronounced it, “mealy” and so did everyone else in my neck of the woods. As I prefer to get names right I always worried I could be showing my ignorance by mispronouncing it.

Eventually I sent an email to Miele. The reply advised it is pronounced, “meal-a”. Unfortunately the quality of this information didn’t live up to the high standards I expect from Miele because the letter “a” can of course be pronounced as it is in, “apple” or as in, “ape”. For a while I adopted, “Mealay” which is undoubtedly posher, but eventually I discovered the correct way to pronounce Miele (at least by Miele themselves in the UK) is, “meal-a” as in apple.

Written By - Washerhelp on May 16th, 2007 with 4 comments
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Richmal Richmal
#1. August 17th, 2008, at 4:40 PM.


thank goodness for that! now I can go buy A Meal-a (as in apple) AKA Miele Cat & Dog Vacuum without having panic attack,
thanks for that!

Washerhelp Washerhelp
#2. August 18th, 2008, at 2:47 PM.


Even some of the sales people don’t know how to pronounce it :-)

Tim Tim
#3. April 2nd, 2010, at 10:41 AM.


At work, I sell spare parts for theese appliances in a call centre, miele is pronounced “me-lay” it’s funny what people ask for onoccasion over the phone such as “me-elle” and “me-lee” ah well. It’s all fun!

Miele Vacuum Miele Vacuum
#4. June 28th, 2010, at 5:34 PM.


I bought the Miele Vacuum about four years ago and still think it was the best purchase decision I’ve ever made.And till date I am not sure how to pronounce it :)

 

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