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Re: Name barbarisms

From:Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Date:Monday, May 14, 2001, 17:46
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Bjorn Kristinsson wrote:

> I stayed in England for some time a few years ago, and I was amazed at how > people pronounced my name. Especially considering that there are a few > native Bjorns in the UK. Some of them got my name sort of ok, /bjO:n/, which > is what I consider the 'correct English' way :) Then some came up with this: > /dZO:n/ (yes, John :), or close to that. /bd/ is of course very marked and > the /b/ was hard or impossible to hear. For completions sake, the Icelandic > pronounciation goes something like /bj2rn_0/ or /bj2n_0/ (I think) > > However, this 'barbarism' paled in comparison to what a friend of mine, > Ragnheiður, had to endure when we went to Denmark once :D >
Hehe, I can imagine...and that was only Denmark! I knew someone who studied here in Vancouver a while who was named Hrafnkell and the way people tried to say that name...that and our friend Gjorce Antunovski...we had a real odd-names club going =) (btw Gjorce's name is pronounced ["gjortS@] or ["dZortS@]...it varies even in Macedonia). -------ferko Ferenc Gy. Valoczy Free British Columbia! Virtual Votia - Vaddjamaa Internetaza: http://www.geocities.com/uralica railways page: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/3976/ 25kV 50Hz: http://www.mp3.com/25kV50Hz

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