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

[Hugh & Belinda Niewoehner]

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:
>
>