Mike, we have over 150 nations. Over 2000000 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 for a pronouniation of a foreign name.
Don't think you'll ever find all words there spoken in eg. all Afriaakns, French, Russian dialects. Bernhard -----Original Message----- From: Mike Fry [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 10:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Surname pronunciation 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 nasally, sort of like Bahra. (They > sometimes appeared in census as > BARROW) > I considered AKA but tend to prefer a name source. I don't know how to > create a source for oral preaching. > Any suggestions please? Have you looked at a good dictionary? They very often have pronunciation guides in the waffel at the front. Only problem is they use very specific phonetic type fonts. You may get some clues from the likes of Websters(?) or my personal favourite since I'm English, Chambers. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
