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Re: Pronunciation of the author's names


From: Eduardo Vieira
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of the author's names
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:09:08 -0300

Thank you! Now I have an idea. 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Han-Wen Nienhuys" <address@hidden> 
To: "Shamus" <address@hidden> 
Cc: <address@hidden> 
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 8:06 AM 
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of the author's names 


> Shamus schreef: 
>>> Meeting Han-Wen last time I asked him how the name `Nieuwenhuizen' 
>>> actually does sound.  To make it short: I'll stay with `Jan' and 
>>> `Han-Wen'. 
>> 
>> I'll take a stab at it, though I'm no expert at this kind of thing (the 
>> words nine, when, and zen are the American English pronunciations): :-) 
>> 
>> Nienhuys --> nine - hyoos 
>> Nieuwenhuizen --> nee - oo - when - hoo - zen 
>> 
>> Note that there are no accent marks given; my best guess is that they 
>> would fall on the second to last syllable in each case. This is also 
>> most likely the wrong pronunciation in any case. 
>> 
>> So how did I do? Did I get anywhere close? :-) 
> 
> close but not quite: 
> 
>   nienhuys = 'neen huh-iss 
>   nieuwenhuizen = 'nee wunn huh-izz zunn 
> 
> (where huh-i is a monosyllabic dipthong, so slide from uh to ih smoothly.) 
> 
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