"Redonda" wrote in message
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Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
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(Redonda) wrote:
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Not in the UK. -steel here.
And '-stile' in America.
Not so. My brother, sister-in-law and nephew all live there. The
North
Americans seem to have fewer problems with the name than the
British.
The Americans I met while living in Berlin (including the 3 I shared
an apartment with) always pronounced 'ie' as 'eye' for example they
called Riesling (wine) 'rye-sling'. Maybe it's regional (my American
friends were mostly from California) or proper names don't follow
general usage?
Americans have great problems with names such as Cecil ("SEE-sul" rather
than "SESS-ul") and Bernard ("ber-NARD" rather than "BERN-ud"). And then
you've got names like Zellweger which they pronounce as spelled rather than
"TSELL-vayg-air". But I'd have problems with many US names of American
Indian origin, so I suppose we're about honours even!
What's the correct pronunciation of Braun, as in the name of the
manufacturer of kitchen appliances - "Brawn" or "Brown" (the latter being
the German pronunciation).