Re: CHAT: new names (was: Re: Bopomofo and pinyin)
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 23, 2000, 6:35 |
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At 1:38 am +0100 23/1/00, daniel andreasson wrote:
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>I have in fact a similar question. My mom's maiden name was
>_Sagelid_ and I could change my surname to it if I wanted to.
>My grandfather came up with it because every other guy where
>he lived had _Johansson_ as surname.
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>It's very nice in Swedish, but how does it sound for a non-Swede?
>And how'd y'all pronounce it (if you didn't know I was Swedish)?
If I recognized it as foreign & non-Romance, then ['s&g@lId]; but if I
wasn't aware of that and assumed it was English, then ['seidZlId].
In Wales it would get pronounced as [sa'gElId] by Welsh speakers and
probably by most English speakers.
Ray.
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