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 countries have many dialect speaking 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:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 11:14 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Surname pronunciation
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 they have it!
Would this approach work for you? Or were you interested in recording sound
into Legacy?
Thank you.
Robert
Genealogy without documentation is mythology! Always SOURCE your work.
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Richard Van Wasshnova
<[email protected]> 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.
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