How do you pronounce leggings?

Your mom is actually right about the older pronunciation. In East Berlin especially, people said "Lejings" with that soft "g" sound, following German phonetic rules. It's the same reason older Berliners say "Tschekko" instead of "Checkpoint Charlie" or pronounce "Jeans" like "Dschiens." Younger generations started using the English pronunciation in the 90s, so it's a real generational split, not just your mom being stubborn.

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The "lejings" pronunciation is definitely a classic Berlin thing, not just your mom's imagination. My dad's side of the family, all from Wedding, still says it that way and they'd look at you funny if you said "leggings" with a hard G. It's the same pattern as how older Berliners say "Schrippe" for bread roll or "Stulle" for sandwich, they just naturally soften the sounds. You'll still hear it in some of the older Spätis around Prenzlauer Berg if you pay attention.

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it's wild how many words got that treatment back then. my berlin-born boss still says "Leberwurst" with that same soft g sound, it's just how they rolled in the 70s and 80s. you'll also hear older folks say "Tschäcke" for jacket sometimes, same deal. it's not like she's making it up, it's just a fading dialect thing you mostly catch at the flea market at mauerpark now

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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