It is not the proper way to pronounce Aachen so that people would yell out Gesundheit!
It is also not the proper manners to say Gesundheit! when somebody says Aachen.
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@ariadne More like Aa'en, if you don't have a good 'h' notation, which does happen to be a problem wih English. German 'ch' is pretty much the 'x' sound of Mexico, as pronounced by Spanish speakers. If it was a Slavic city, English speakers would spell the name 'Aakhen', and then mispronounce it by trying to make an occlusive 'h' sound. (Properly pronounced German 'ch' does not really call for occlusion.)
@riley weird. most of us were calling it ahh-chen at the #postmarketOSandAlpineLinuxConference2026
@riley it's not ahh-chen?