Re: Name barbarisms
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 14, 2001, 17:46 |
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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
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