Re: Name barbarisms

On Wed, 16 May 2001, Andreas Johansson wrote:

> I used to have a teacher who rendered my first name as /an"dwe:as/. Pretty
> annoying, but he really drove my sister Rebecka crazy by pronouncing her
> name as /we"beka/. He's a native speaker, but his dialect is a bit, er,
> deviant.
My sister insists on being called, [ZuZi], which is the Hungarian
equivalent of Sue. One of her teachers drove her insane by constantly
saying [suSi].

-------ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy

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