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Re: CHAT: new names (was: Re: Bopomofo and pinyin)

From:Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Saturday, January 22, 2000, 17:14
At 12:13 pm +0100 22/1/00, BP Jonsson wrote:
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>which I think is good, but I read of one guy who had grown up with only his >mother, and wanted to take a <mother>son name. He was turned down.
Quite free to do that here - it's not at all uncommon, I believe. Indeed, in one well known family where there's a Mum & Dad, the kids (all four of them) have all taken their Mum's surname name, Windsor, rather than their Dad's, Mountbatten :) Two of my married colleagues have each continued to retain their own surnames - she is Mrs Prujean while he is Mr Skupski. Their kids are surnamed 'Prujuean-Skupski' - anything's possible here.
>May I perhaps use you fellas as Guinea-pigs for a name that I and my >wife-to-be consider taking when we marry? > >How would you pronounce _Ryttervik_ in your various natlangs? Especially: >where would you place the stress?
First syllable /'rIt@vIk/ in my S.E. English pronunciation. Ray. ========================================= A mind which thinks at its own expense will always interfere with language. [J.G. Hamann 1760] =========================================