[Ansteorra] Pronunciation was Re: "Ansteorran: of or pertaining to the Kingdom of Ansteorra"

[HerrDetlef]

I was trying to spell it as I learned to pronounce it. The actual spelling
of the name is Kjøbenhavn, and the rules that I learned were that "kj" is
pronounced as "hy" ("y" as in "yacht" and not as in "hyper"), and "v" is
pronounced as "u". I wince just a little when I hear people call it
CopenHAYgen.

P&B,
DT+LF
Detlef


On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Hugh & Belinda Niewoehner <
burgborrendohl at valornet.com> wrote:

> Hyubenhaun?? Interesting.  Is that the original name?  The locals in
> Denmark called it by "Koo ben hafen" when we were at the Lejre Research
> Center, but that probably was the modern name.  How exactly is that
> pronounced?
>
> And definitely Yerushalayim is beautiful.
>
> Ismet
>
>
> HerrDetlef wrote:
>
>> I like to try for a "when in Rome/Roma" philosophy toward pronouncing
>> foreign place names, such as Moskva, Hyubenhaun (Copenhagen), Paree, Wien,
>> and Athinai. It's interesting that we have a small town in Texas named
>> Praha, but we still call the city it was named after Prague. I've been
>> calling the site of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia church Barthelona for years.
>> Pronouncing the capital of Israel "Jerusalem" is a travesty, considering
>> how
>> gorgeous the name "Yerushalayim" sounds.
>>
>> Would that we could standardize the spelling of the country to our south
>> as
>> Mejico, so that people would be more inclined to pronounce that name
>> correctly, rather than as Meksico. Maybe even Tejas instead of Texas.
>>
>> It also makes us sound less ethnocentric :-)
>>
>> P&B,
>> DT+LF
>> Detlef
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Hugh & Belinda Niewoehner <
>> burgborrendohl at valornet.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>
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