You want us to explain pronunciation in writing? It is like explaining a helical line sitting on your hands, unless you know the international phonetic alphabet (which I don´t .-)
My first name is pronounces almost like Doug, except that you exchange ´ou´with the ´a´ from the English word "are". In Thrane you first have to forget about the ´h´ (which is also the case in the Norwegian pronunciation) and start with an ordinary ´t´, then you need a Norwegian "rolling" ´r´ and the same ´a´ as before, the ´n´ is uncontroversial but ´e´is like the one in "they". :-) Den 20. juli 2011 kl. 23.57 skrev Larry Colen: > We've got people from a wide range of cultures on this list, and there are a > lot of folks with names that I can only guess at the pronunciation. Names > which may be common in one culture are pretty rare in Central California. > > I haven't heard much variation in the pronunciation of Larry, but the two > common mistakes are to misread Colen as Cohen, or to pronounce it the way > everyone but Colin Powell pronounces Colin. It's pronounced like Cohen, but > with an "L" rather than an "H": Koe-len. > > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.