Since I already tried to explain this to Boris prior to my visit to Israel, I'll just past what I told him at that time:
Jaume is a Catalan name, that in Spanish is Jaime, James in English, Jacques in French, Giacomo in Italian...Actually, my offical name (as in Passport and Spanish ID) is Jaime, since Catalan was forbiden for official use when I was born (we had a dictatorship at that time), and I never bothered to change it. For some reason I always thought that English speakers would pronounce better Jaume than Jaime, since the J sounds as in James and for Jaime it sounds like in Javier Bardem. But it seems that the 'au' combination fools a lot and they never know how to approach to it. Jaime: Hi- met (without 't') Jaume: ZHOW-Muh Anyway, I found this website with audio exemples, much beter: http://www.forvo.com/word/jaime/ http://forvo.com/word/jaume/ As for Lahuerta, the h is not pronounced: La-where-tah Regards, Jaume >________________________________ >De: Larry Colen <[email protected]> >Para: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Enviado: miércoles 20 de julio de 2011 23:57 >Asunto: OT How do you pronounce your name? > >We've got people from a wide range of cultures on this list, and there are a >lot of folks with names that I can only guess at the pronunciation. Names >which may be common in one culture are pretty rare in Central California. > >I haven't heard much variation in the pronunciation of Larry, but the two >common mistakes are to misread Colen as Cohen, or to pronounce it the way >everyone but Colin Powell pronounces Colin. It's pronounced like Cohen, but >with an "L" rather than an "H": Koe-len. > > >-- >Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est > > > > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow >the directions. > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
