Koningsdam pronunciation

[mtd716]

This may be an unusual question, but what is the correct pronunciation of Koningsdam? I’ve heard the ‘o’ pronounced different ways on various YouTube videos, and I want to know what is accurate. Is the ‘o’ a long (cone) or short (con) vowel sound? It seems trivial, but I would really hate to show up for our cruise next summer and discover that I’d been pronouncing it wrong in my head all this time. 
 

Thanks!

[luv2cruisenz]

My DH who is Dutch, pronounces it as the long ‘o’ like cone. 
 

Edited August 21, 2023 by luv2cruisenz

[ConanD]

Since it's a dutch word, it's pronounced with a long o like cone (or co-pilot)

Wikimedia has a pronounciation soundfile here as well 🙂

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Nl-koning.ogg

[VermeulT]

also DAM isn't like hot damn  it's d-ah-m.

 

cone-ings-dahm

 

 

[highscar]

You just added class to my vocabulary.    

[highscar]

Thank you daarling

[julia]

Well, I'll be dahmed!!  🤣

[TiogaCruiser]

I pronounce it KingKongDahm

[badtwin]

Reminds me of the time we went for a cruise on the Magellan  (which was then with now defunct CMV.)  We assumed it was pronounced muh-JEL-uhn.   We soon learned the correct or at least British pronunciation was muh-GEL-uhn (with a hard -G-).

[Ineke]

Proper pronunciation:

Ko- long o as in go -

nings- pronounced as written-

dum, as in thumb.

Emphasis on the first syllable.

[OlsSalt]

I call it my least favorite HAL ship.

(Duck)