Kingdom of Knuffel

There's an s at the end
And yes, it's got a goofy name
no it's not pronounced swans

I was thinking more like "Shawarma" but ending differently.... oooh, yeah, if it were Schwan's Shawarma that'd be neat too!

They have stock that's permanent, stuff that's seasonal
Course the downside is it's all frozen

Schwan is german for swan, so I definitely see the ballet connection ;)
How do they pronounce it, Kit?

Swan but with an sh instead of an s

I just saw boat-order pizza on tv

That's similar to how we pronounce it in German :)
Except we also pronounce the a in it differently. More like the a in lark, maybe? I find it hard to come up with comparisons like that.

Boat-order pizza? What is that? You order pizza and it gets shipped by boat??

Order a pizza that's made and delivered on a boat???? Idk, it only showed up for about thirty seconds

I pronounce the a in lark and in swan the same, so...

Hm, ok, then I'm confused now :D
I pronounce them quite differently, but then again, I'm not a native english speaker, so I might just pronounce one or both of them wrong. Or it is a matter of different regional pronounciations...

Prolly accent

Like Mary, merry, and marry I pronounce the same, but there are people who say only two are the same or all are different

Mh, I can see Mary being pronounced in multiple ways, but the other two sound the same to me and one pronounciation option I have in my head for Mary sounds like them, too.

Fascinating, that stuff, though.

I actually have sound references for how I think swan and lark sound - the online dictionary I use has these little play buttons to play someone saying the word, and that's pretty close to how I think they sound:
swan
lark

These seem very different to me, the lark is similar to a german a, while the swan has a tilt towards german o in my ears.