I also prefer the "Sanjear" pronunciation however since Alex Singer was from Hungary. Hungarians may have pronounced it "Zinger" with a soft "Z"
Mike Schmidt Stirling, NJ
On 9/25/08 4:10 PM, "Jan Heine" <heine94@earthlink.net> wrote:
> At 1:51 PM -0600 9/25/08, Mitch Harris wrote:
>
>> On the other hand Singer is such a familiar word in English, both as
>> an ordinary noun and as a proper name, that its path toward
>> anglicization is smoothed and few people will object to hearing
>> "singer" for an A.Singer bike when it is said by a native English
>> speaker on soil where English is widely spoken.
>
> Absolutely. In fact, in the U.S., I refer to Alex Singer as if he had
> been a London, rather than Paris, builder. But in France, I use the
> French pronunciation.
>
> Jan Heine
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