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Pronunciation "Blucher", probably Blushay. If by general rules Katsbach. ch is the German Sound. It is a sound which can not be expressed in English upon paper. It depends somewhat upon the vowel it follows. After a,o, & u, I believe it is one sounds, & after e, i, & y, it is called a different one. After e,i, & y. it is a sort of an aspiration like a hissing, or rather spitting of cats. After A, (did you ever hear a horse that had the heaves badly breathes with a very much loud noise after exertion. it is some like that. To pronounce Katsbach, after the first syllable K a t s, begin to say bark, or perhaps better still to bark like a dog yourself, and then stop very suddenly & very guttorally. The sound is called a gutteral. By the way there are one or two general directions of great use in attempting to pronounce words of any European language. They are no so much peculiarities in other languages as anamolies in the English Language. things wherein that differs from all others that I know of. a.e.i. Nobody knows where we get our English right to pronounce them as we do. The letter a in all other languages has an invariable sound like our "ah". Our long a sound, in other languages is attached only to the letter E. It is plain even in English that there is where it alone belongs. Our English long a & short e you will notice are the same sound. Also the sounds which we attach to the letter E. long E belongs in other languages only to the letter i The sound we give to the letter i is in other languages always and invariably attached to the dipthong et. Remembering these things, and also that other people always pronounce their consonants much more distinctly than