How do you pronounce "Mises"

Miscellaneous General
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I’ve always just assumed it rhymed with Jesus, but since I found out Keynes is pronounced like Canes, I thought I’d better ask.

Anyone know?

Thanks,

The Rev

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On the Institute’s podcasts, Lew usually says it like this “Meeses”, as it it would rhyme with Reese’s

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Jeffrey Tucker, Lew Rockwell, Tom Woods and Murray Rothbard all pronounce(d) it as Meeses.

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Although, I suspect that in reality the first s is meant to be a z-like sound. (as double s is usually pronounced as a solid long sounding s).

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Many people say it not as “Reesiz” not “Reesees.”

I always thought everyone on the audio said Meezeez (that is how I began to say it ever since I heard them all saying it).

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If he’s Austrian, and I assume Austrians speak German, then the first “s” would definitely be pronounced as a “z.” An of course the “i” is pronounced “ee.”

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I’m sure Hoppe pronounces it correctly, being a native German speaker. I can’t recall offhand any lecture recording where I’ve heard him say Mises’s name.

Clayton -

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So it’s Mee-z-ses?

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How do you properly pronounce keynesian? As in keynesian policies or keynesian economics?

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Mee-zes.

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For that matter, is the German pronunciation basically “Lewd-vig phone Mee-zes”??

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It would be like kAYn-zee-in

On Mises, if I recall correctly I heard a Teaching Company lecture with Timothy Taylor who pronounced it “Meez”. I figured it had to be incorrect.

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Not at all. That’s the American pronunciation =]. This may be closer : L - short u - d - v - short i - d v - short o - n M - short i - z - short i - s.

edit : long vowels are usually written as such in German. For instance Wien, Wien ie = long i. Wir short i. Vowels ending with ‘h’ are long vowels. Bohm, long o. So Mises would have a short i. BUT I may be wrong =].

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Oops! I accidentally added an extra “s”. My bad. Anywho, I think I’ve heard Hans Hermann-Hoppe actually say “Lewd-vig phone Mee-zes”. Btw, how would you say “Hans Hermann-Hoppe”?

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I thoguht the American pronounciation was “Lud-wig vohn My-sees”.

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When I was taught economics during high school, the teacher would always say John Maynard KEENS. Then with the word Keynesian, I used to just say kin-ee-jhin. It would sound horrible saying keen-ee-jhin. I have no clue how to phonetically spell out the way I say jhin, and I can’t think of another word off the top of my head with it… maybe it is called a short j?

Then I started listening to the audio here where they say cane-zee-in, so that is what I have started to say since I assume that is the correct way to say it.

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Yeah I have heard My-zees, Misses, My-sees. I wonder how many different variations Jeffrey Tucker has heard over the years!!!

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I don’t think Hoppe says that. That’s how it sounds to you because your native language is English.

English 'phone ’ /foʊn/
German ‘von’ /fon/

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Only in Switzerland, in normal German, ie is pronounced long e.

But this:

Is more or less correct. Although, the first I in “Mises” is not a short “i”. Given this topic, I’d love to hear some people here try to speak Portuguese.

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What’s so special about Portuguese?