(as inthought). And of the six dictionaries I checked, all of them except theOEDallow both pronunciations (with theOEDaccepting only-tal). The argument that English speakers should pronounce it the way German speakers do seems to imply that we should also call the capital of France "par-...
Jeez, Etienne. First you scare some poor fellow half to death because you can pronounce the name of his fellow-countryman accurately, having written it down in IPA (I can’t find this story, but it’s somewhere on the site), making him believe you’re from the CIA. And now this. B...