Basel or Basel? What is it??

sprinkles · 28-10-2004 12:55PM #1

Quick question, been bugging me and no dount countless others (hopefully anyway, otherwise I'm just sad!)

Do you pronounce it as:

"Baal" or....... wait for it : " Basil" ?

Spalk0 · 28-10-2004 01:00PM

Baal!

But to annoy the swiss we call it Basil!

hehe

Drag00n79 · 28-10-2004 01:08PM

In French its Baal. In German its Basil.

sharkman · 28-10-2004 01:09PM

Depends on which side of the border you are from !

sprinkles · 28-10-2004 01:12PM

Usually George Ham is good at getting the names right, so I go by his pronunciation, althought the english are convinced its Basil.

Draupnir · 28-10-2004 02:10PM

Its both as said above, Switzerland has both a French and a German speaking population, to the French is Baal, to the Germans its Basil, the country itself has different names and pronunciations depending on the person you talk to. Schweiz, Swisse are two I can think of off hand

yop · 28-10-2004 03:58PM

I have friends living there and they call it BASIL

I will b over there in a few weeks so I will listen out for you

mike65 · 28-10-2004 07:01PM

I was brought up to say Baal, but I guess the team can be called Basel and not Baal regardless of culture/language.

Mike.

Basel or Basel? What is it??

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