How do you pronounce "trub"?

[Tiber_Brew]

Probably because I'm from a "linguistic minority" (French Québécois, to be precise...), but it matters to me. I think that trying to respect cultural differences (including specifics of language) is a minimum, in a globalized world where the "language of the empire" tends to overtake everything (mind you, I'm not saying that this "language of the empire" is evil, or that it shouldn't be learned; it's what allows me to have discussion with people all over the world).

I find myself saying "Porsh-eh" for Porsche (German of course), "sah-oo-nah" for sauna (Finnish), etc.

 

[str1p3s]

I pronounce it tr-uh-b precisely because I don't want people to think I'm trying to be a home brew know-it-all snob and say it "properly". I know how it's pronounced, but I know my own dialect as well. I don't see it as disrespectful. I see it as not want to appear to be trying too hard to either impress or look down on people who pronounce it differently.

And, like someone else said, it's funny when people look down their nose at you and think you're an idiot if you don't pronounce things "correctly".

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

I think that trying to respect cultural differences (including specifics of language) is a minimum,

Whereas I think that being respectful is recognizing phonetic differences of language and keeping it to yourself when a non-local mispronounces a word when you clearly understand what is being said through context.

 

[Braumeise]

The fun part is that it looks like it has its origins in German words, but that it may actually be an English word (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trub_(brewing)). I was under the assumption that it was a German word.

So... why the pronunciation "troob", if it's not a German word?

as I just said... Trubstoff is German...
the verb is trüb...

In Winemaking it is "Trester" or "Treber"

since I never heard of Trub other than when talking about brewing and my German Etymology Book doesn't list it other than "Trüben" originally meaning to stir up sediment from the bottom - I assume it is "made up" sort of...

yet... Trub-Stoff really is German and it has a correct pronunciation

 

[Firewalker11]

So, troob-stuff it is!

 

[brewcat]

Trub like truck.

 

[mongoose33]

How do you pronounce "trub?"


C R A P

As in, "the crap in the bottom of the fermenter."

 

[hunter_le five]

Spell =/= pronounce

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Spell =/= pronounce

it's speeled "trub" but it's pronounced "will-AM-it"

 

[Braumeise]

So, troob-stuff it is!

lol!

 

[Homercidal]

I don't know if it's important to say it "correctly" but it might be nice to settle into one particular way of saying it. I know many brewers who not only say different terms differently, but also say German words incorrectly. Not proper for an American speaking German, and certainly not sounding like a native speaker.

The important thing is that they get across what they are trying to say.

 

[filthyastronaut]

This was too shocking of a revelation for just getting up in the morning. Haven't even had my coffee.

 

[GHBWNY]

I pronounce it tr-uh-b precisely because I don't want people to think I'm trying to be a home brew know-it-all snob and say it "properly". I know how it's pronounced, but I know my own dialect as well. I don't see it as disrespectful. I see it as not want to appear to be trying too hard to either impress or look down on people who pronounce it differently.

And, like someone else said, it's funny when people look down their nose at you and think you're an idiot if you don't pronounce things "correctly".

Where I live, the chances of running into someone who is going to know what "trub" means, much less judge me on my pronunciation of it, are pretty slim. Even if they did, it wouldn't be right to judge who I am based upon my pronunciation any more than it would be for me to use it in a way to feign knowhow-ness.