How to pronounce Zapf?

Like ``tsapf''. The ``a'' is pronounced like a short version of the well known tongue-depresser vowel ``aaahhh''. Perhaps a better English analogy would be the ``o'' in ``hop'' or ``hops''.

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South Germany

from Middle High German zapfe ‘bung’, ‘stopper’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a taverner, or perhaps a nickname for an inebriate.

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The American pronunciation of Zapf is

zaepf  

z	sounds like the		'z'	in 'zen'
ae	sounds like the		'a'	in 'at'
p	sounds like the		'p'	in 'pet'
f	sounds like the		'f'	in 'fan'

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American

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German

Zapfe