How do you pronounce Kierkegaard?

Question

Phoenetic spelling please.

Answer 1

Keer-keh-guard.

In German, when you see the "ei" or "ie" combination, it's the second letter that is pronounced. Example, "drei" is pronounced "dry", while "vier" is pronounced "fear".

Answer 2

Keer-key-gaard

Answer 3

Most English speakers pronounce it as 'kîr-ki-gard
(first syllable accented, rhymes with "cheer")
(second syllable the i is short, as in "hit")
("gard" rhymes with "yard")

But some, to stay close to the Danish original, pronounce the last syllable as "gore".

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Kierkegaard

Answer 4

See link and hear it.

Well one day I was at home threatening the kids when I looks out through the hole in the wall and sees this tank pull up and out gets one of Dinsdale's boys, so he comes in nice and friendly and says Dinsdale wants to have a word with me, so he chains me to the back of the tank and takes me for a scrape round to Dinsdale's place and Dinsdale's there in the conversation pit with Doug and Charles Paisley, the baby crusher, and two film producers and a man they called 'Kierkegaard', who just sat there biting the heads of whippets and Dinsdale says 'I hear you've been a naughty boy Clement' and he splits me nostrils open and saws me leg off and pulls me liver out and I tell him my name's not Clement and then... he loses his temper and nails me head to the floor.

Answer 5

I have heard 2 pronunciations:
KEER-kuh-gard and KEER-kuh-gore
The first seems likely to be the anglocised version, the second closer to the Danish (Swedish?).

Answer 6

Keer- key- guard- long E sound in the first syllable

Answer 7

Ker-key-gard by looking at it.

Answer 8

keerk a gard

Answer 9

keer-ka-guard

Answer 10

ker-key-guard