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A while back, I searched the German white pages for the name "Kliebenstein", as our ggggrandfather Henry spelled it when he arrived on these shores, give or take an "n", and found most people with that name living in or around Saarbrücken. I had a chance to attend the August meeting of the Saarland Genealogical Society over there this past Tuesday, and among other interesting things learned that in the local dialect the sound spelled with "ie" in standard German is pronounced like a short "e", and that "b" is often softened to "v". The guy who told me about this used the example of the word "Giebel" - "gable" in English - which in standard German would rhyme with English "feeble" but in Saarbrücken dialect would more or less rhyme with "devil" (at least the way the latter two words are pronounced in northern Illinois). Applied to "Kliebenstein" this gives the pronunciation of "Clevenstine" that I've always known, and reinforces the idea that Henry came from the Saarland, rather than the Palatinate that was the origin of so many Pennsylvania Germans.
Hope this is of interest, particularly to the three folks who kindly responded to an earlier post regarding pronunciation in February.
- - Emmert