At 06:56 AM 5/5/02, you wrote: >J. van Baardwijk wrote: > > >It makes we wonder how the English-speaking community of this world > >would pronounce "Jeroen". I have some idea about how it would sound, > >but I doubt many of you would get it right. > >I always mentally pronounce it "jer-o'-en" just like it's spelled. I take >it that's wrong then. ;-) > >Jim
I also take it that pronouncing it as two syllables�the first syllable as a USAmerican would pronounce the first syllable of "Jerry", the second one to rhyme with "moan"�is probably wrong, too. Though I guess I could do worse: the spell-checker in Eudora always suggests changing "Jeroen to "Broken" . . . -- Ronn! :) No Speakee The Dutch Maru
