I think alex singer's name in Budapest would have sounded more like "Zinger" with a soft "z" and a soft "r".
Mike Schmidt Millington, New Jersey Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 24, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Edward Albert <ealbert01@gmail.com> wrote:
> Lighten up Jan I was talking about "talking heads" parading as
> reporters,
> not about Alex Singer. Or maybe it was the group Talking Heads
> whose leader
> David Bryne is, I believe, quite a bike fan.
> Edward Albert
> Chappaqua, New Yawk, U.S.A.
>
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Jan Heine <heine94@earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes. I would postulate that the French pronunciation of the
>>> Hungarian/Jewish name "Singer" would be about equivalent to the
>>> American
>>> talking heads' pronunciation of "Peugeot" on Speed Channel. ;-)
>>>
>>> Edward Albert wrote:
>>>
>>>> Since when were reporters, especially talking heads, trustworthy
>>>> sources
>>>> for
>>>> pronunciation
>>>>
>>>
>> And here we start again. It is true: Alex Singer himself may have
>> mispronounced his own name!
>>
>> Too bad that during his lifetime, the CR list did not yet exist, as
>> we
>> could have set him straight on how he should have pronounced his
>> name. ;-)
>>
>> Everybody I have met in France and Belgium, who knew and dealt with
>> Alex
>> Singer during his lifetime, pronounces his name the way the TV
>> announcer
>> does. So do Ernest and Olivier Csuka.
>>
>> To me, that suffices to make it the correct pronunciation. At least
>> for
>> "Cycles Alex Singer" - the company that continues to exist today.
>>
>>
>> Jan Heine
>> Editor
>> Bicycle Quarterly
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