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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3822, 16 October 1936, Page 12

The pronunciation of names associated with European political movements is often the cause of difficulty to these not acquainted with the languages concerned, and many variant methods of pronouncing the words “Nazi” and “Fascist” are to be heard. For the former, the Rev. N. D. L. Wjebster, at one time minister of St. Andrew’s Church, Christchurch, who visited Germany this year, offers as authoritative a pronunciation that, though perhaps the most obvious to English people, is not generally heard. He said that German university graduates told him that it was pronounced so as to rhyme with lazy, and not “Nahzi ” or “ Natzi,” or any of the other variants heard. Incidentally, Mr Webster said that a surprisingly large number of people in Germany spoke English. There was scarcely a shop where it was not spoken.