Re: [wEr\ Ar\ ju: fr6m] ?
| From: | Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <irina@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 7, 2001, 8:33 |
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On Wednesday 07 November 2001 06:44, Roger Mills wrote:
> Nearby Holland has
> interesting surrounding villages: Drenthe (never heard it
> pronounced! probably ["dr\EnT@] )
Not in Dutch; it has no [T]. We say ['drEnt@] and some people (not
me) spell it without the "h".
> Overisel (ought to be Overijsel
> I think) ["ov@r\ajsl=]
Overijssel (though the single-s spelling is permitted).
> and The Graafschaap usually ["gr\AfskAp],
> though an amazing number of people around here get at least the
> -sch- right-- ["grAfsxAp].
Are you sure there's "aa" in both syllables? "Graafschap" ['xrafsxAp]
means "county".
> Those names should look familiar to Irina. BTW there are 7
> _Dryfhout_ in the Holland phone book. Any kin, do you suppose?
Very, very remote, probably. Some of my ancestors' brothers may have
emigrated in the 17th to 19th centuries, but I don't know of them
(not that *that* side of the family has ever done much genealogy).
Irina
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