scy<p>"Her name is Gretchen. That's a German name, right?"</p><p>No.</p><p>"Gretchen", while totally archaic, is based on a German name, yes.</p><p>But this "Krettshn" thing Americans mutated it into is definitely not.</p><p>This is the original German pronunciation:</p><p><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2a/De-Gretchen.oga/De-Gretchen.oga.mp3" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia</span><span class="invisible">/commons/transcoded/2/2a/De-Gretchen.oga/De-Gretchen.oga.mp3</span></a></p><p>Also, keep in mind that "-chen" is a diminutive suffix, "Gretchen" literally means "little Greta". It feels very strange for us when the person is an adult.</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/German" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>German</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/USEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USEnglish</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Gretchen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gretchen</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/name" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>name</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a></p>