Re: [CR]Singer?

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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:38:42 -0500
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "John Betmanis" <johnb@oxford.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Singer?
In-Reply-To: <011620071508.27634.45ACEA7500082CFB00006BF22205886442020E000A9C9D0A08@comcast.net>


At 03:08 PM 1/16/07 +0000, hersefan@comcast.net wrote:
>More accurately, how would it be pronounced in Hungarian? That is where Alex Singer emigrated from when he went to Paris.
>

Exactly. Most immigrants give up trying to teach everyone the native pronounciation of their names and settle for something close. Did the man succumb to a francophone pronounciation? If so, what's wrong with an anglophone pronounciation by English speakers?

John Betmanis
Woodstock, Ontario
Canada