Originally Posted by
doorunrun
So, should us Anglo's go with "sh-why-VEH" if I heard it correctly.
I don't think so.
Guy (and others) can chime in, but if I'm not mistaken this is the German word for sparrow. I don't know any German and only have a rudimentary idea of correct German phonetics, but I was recently in Germany and while there visited a half dozen or so shops that sold Schwalbe tires and talked with them looking for a particular model. IIRC, the pronunciation they were using was something like SHVALL-beh or possibly SHVALL-bee but with much less emphasis on the 'ee' than we would use in English.