"J. van Baardwijk" wrote: > > At 17:48 04-05-2002 -0400, Mark Constantino wrote: > > >Jeryan seems like a valid alternative spelling and I liked using it. > > 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. >
As a native (American) English-speaker, I would (and sometimes still do) pronounce it to myself as something like "djair-owen", however if I actually met Jeroen (it could happen) I would draw upon my high school German classes and pronounce it "ye-roon". -- Matt
