[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] GARY WARNER - UMLAUT in ENGLISH

[Gary Warner]

Otto,

Thanks for the education.

The ü I find most interesting, and I can now see 
how the name Krüger becomes Kryger.   Looks like 
I have been saying Karl Krueger's name wrong for 
a long time.    I wonder how he says it?   Karl, are you there??

 From Annegret's earlier email, however, it 
sounds like the ö has varying sounds, depending 
on the dialect spoken.    The König surname is 
one of mine, and the differences seem to explain 
why no matter if I say K-ay-nig or K-e(short 
e)-nig, someone tells me I said it wrong.

I guess the only way to learn to say the letters 
correctly is to do it in public often and have 
people beat you with a stick when you do it wrong.

Gary

At 06:56 PM 05/07/06, Otto wrote:
> > GARY ASKED:
>
> > Please, it you would, tell me and the rest of the list, the proper
> > way to say words that include an ä,ö,ü, and ß.
>
>A following vowel dictates the use of an umlaut. (moving from the
>gutteral back of the throat to the front of the tongue)
>The following examples will sound it out in English for you.
>
>Umlaut ä = English long 'a' sound.  (German regular 'a' is pronounced
>as 'ah', as in "ah, yes.")
>
>Umlaut ö = English sound is the same as the beginning of 'ai-r' (the
>"air" is fresh-skip the 'r' sound and you have it)
>
>Umlaut ü = English long 'e' sound.
>
>ß = Simply is a double 'ss' (As in "glass")
>
>. . .  Otto
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