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

[John]

CopenHAYgen.

Dats da stuf you puts in yore mouths. rite

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