[CR]Alex Singer video with Ernest Csuka

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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:23:15 -0700
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From: "Jan Heine" <heine94@earthlink.net>
Subject: [CR]Alex Singer video with Ernest Csuka


At 9:41 AM -0700 10/26/08, Jerome & Elizabeth Moos wrote:
>Interesting. He says SanJUR, pronouncing the r on the end. So
>presuming Csuska's pronunciation is that used by the family in
>general, they use neither the English pronunciation, nor the French
>pronunciation, which would be SanJAY

We went over this a while ago... Ernest Csuka uses the standard French pronunciation of "Alex Singer," which you could transcribe as "Sanjear," or "Sanjur" if you like.

The French pronunciation of foreign names does not always follow the simplified rules they teach us in high school.

Jan Heine
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