: Richard Van Wasshnova rfvanwasshn...@gmail.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Sun, January 22, 2012 2:50:30 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Surname pronunciation
Any suggestion on how to record proper pronunciation of a surname?
My mother was always correcting us on her grandmother's surname
Thanks to all of you for your comments and suggestions. They are all
appreciated.
I created a Personal Knowledge source to cover both name citations. I'm
sure I can find more uses for this master source.
In citation comments I entered:
Margaret Bodenmiller-Van Wasshnova often told her children
: Re: [LegacyUG] Surname pronunciation
Thanks to all of you for your comments and suggestions. They are all
appreciated.
I created a Personal Knowledge source to cover both name citations. I'm sure
I can find more uses for this master source.
In citation comments I entered:
Margaret Bodenmiller
Any suggestion on how to record proper pronunciation of a surname?
My mother was always correcting us on her grandmother's surname of NOEL
must be pronounced Newel not like Christmas. Also her aunt and cousins
BARRON must be pronounced nasally, sort of like Bahra. (They sometimes
appeared in
Personal knowledge? Interview with your mother?
Michele
From: Richard Van Wasshnova
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 3:50 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Surname pronunciation
Any suggestion on how to record proper pronunciation of a surname?
My mother was always
On 2012/01/22 22:50, Richard Van Wasshnova wrote:
Any suggestion on how to record proper pronunciation of a surname?
My mother was always correcting us on her grandmother's surname of NOEL must
be pronounced Newel not like Christmas. Also her aunt and cousins BARRON must
be pronounced
*I try to break up the names into the the nearest syllables. Often, my name
is pronounced as corn cal for some reason. I tell people to pronounce it
as if they were saying to independent words together. I suggest they
pronounce it as:
Car (as in automobile) and the word kneel.
Car - kneel, and
Afriaakns,
French, Russian dialects.
Bernhard
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From: Mike Fry [mailto:mike...@iafrica.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 10:18 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Surname pronunciation
On 2012/01/22 22:50, Richard Van Wasshnova wrote:
Any
: [LegacyUG] Surname pronunciation
Any suggestion on how to record proper pronunciation of a surname?
My mother was always correcting us on her grandmother's surname of NOEL must be
pronounced Newel not like Christmas. Also her aunt and cousins BARRON must be
pronounced nasally, sort of like Bahra
the same name but
sounding differently due to the dialect spoken at that time in that area.
Bernhard
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From: Robert E. Carneal [mailto:kentuckygenealog...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 11:14 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Surname pronunciation
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Van Wasshnova [mailto:rfvanwasshn...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 3:50 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Surname pronunciation
Any suggestion on how to record proper pronunciation of a surname?
My mother was always correcting us on her grandmother's surname
On 22/01/2012 22:53, Bernhard Scholz wrote:
Robert,
your example of
Car - kneel
is great.
A while ago I was asked how to pronounce a name of German descandats.
it was Guckel. I said they should pronounce the u like a oo as in book.
This is only an example for this name.
Most eg. european
@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 2:39 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Surname pronunciation
Mike,
we have over 150 nations.
Over 200 dialects and you living in a nation having over 20 dialects like in
eg. your nation is suggestion to use a dictionory like Webster or Chambers look
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