"Max Hauser" > wrote:

> A question arose. Around Vienna over the past 20 years, I
> remember hearing the second word of Grüner Veltliner spoken with
> light stress on the first syllable -- VELTliner, in German (like
> the stress of modern trade name VELcro in English). (In
> English phonetic spelling, the word might be written
> FELT-leener.)
>
> Recently online, some people report another pronunciation in
> German, veltLINer . Possibly these pronunciations are
> regional, within Austria?

Sorry, I am late (have been really busy). It's veltLINer.

M.