{"id":6790,"date":"2010-07-27T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pharma-mkting.com\/how-do-you-pronounce-boehringer\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T01:21:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T01:21:40","slug":"how-do-you-pronounce-boehringer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/blog\/how-do-you-pronounce-boehringer\/","title":{"rendered":"How DO You Pronounce &#8220;Boehringer Ingelheim&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, while at ExL&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exlpharma.com\/events\/pr-communications-summit\">6th Annual Public Relations &amp; Communications Summit<\/a>, I discovered that I was NOT the only person who had difficulty pronouncing &#8220;Boehringer Ingelheim,&#8221; the name of a well-known, but difficult to pronounce German pharmaceutical company. At a roundtable discussion (see <a href=\"http:\/\/pharma-mkting.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/using-social-media-in-crisis-distribute.html\">here<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exlpharma.com\/speakers\/kate-o039connor\">Kate O&#8217;Connor<\/a>, Executive Director, Public Relations at Boehringer Ingelheim, corrected someone else who mispronounced her company&#8217;s name. She then told us that she heard of a funny YouTube video that can help us with &#8220;Boehringer Ingelheim Pronunciation.&#8221; Here it is (pretty funny):<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a little rebus\/word pictogram that may help English-speaking readers better pronounce &#8220;Boehringer.&#8221; Close enough, anyway. You&#8217;re on your own with &#8220;Ingelheim,&#8221; which seems easier to pronounce anyway.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZiPiXEv_Q_g\/TFWI5HCm66I\/AAAAAAAADGo\/gyt65wpaDg8\/s1600\/Bear-Ring-Her.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"235\" src=\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Bear-Ring-Her.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, while at ExL&#8217;s 6th Annual Public Relations &amp; Communications Summit, I discovered that I was NOT the only person who had difficulty pronouncing &#8220;Boehringer Ingelheim,&#8221; the name of a well-known, but difficult to pronounce German pharmaceutical company. 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