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Information about the foreign names database. ... Information about foreign geographic feature names can be obtained from the GEOnet Names Server (GNS), developed and maintained by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The GNS database is the official repository of foreign place-name decisions approved by the U...
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geonames.usgs.gov/foreign/index.html
geonames.usgs.gov/foreign/index.html
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More Names ... A-Z Baby Names ... Pet Names; Names for your pets. Grouped by species. Naming Tips & Quips...
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www.20000-names.com/
www.20000-names.com/
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Jonathan Kolieb is upset that Americans don't pronounce foreign names in the other country's mother tongue. I was flipping through the cable news channels the ... Jonathan Kolieb is upset that Americans don’t pronounce foreign names in the other country’s mother tongue.
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www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/pronouncing_foreign_...
www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/pronouncing_foreign_names/
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Steve Benen brings up a point I've seen made in a few places recently: Dickering over how to pronounce foreign names like Sotomayor or Pakistan. I'm in ... Pronouncing Foreign Names...
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www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/pronouncing_foreign_...
www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/pronouncing_foreign_names-2/
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Quest Interactive Productions ... Giving NPCs Foreign Names ... The general goal of this document is to provide accurate foreign names that are moderately familiar to Americans. Sure, "Uwe" might be an accurate German male name, but who's going to remember that? Or the French name "Rogatien"?
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www.quest.org/ul/foreignnames.shtml
www.quest.org/ul/foreignnames.shtml
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Of course, when a language adopts a foreign word as its own, all bets are off. When saying "I don't give a flying footer." there is no need to pronounce the "t" in "footer" in the French manner. Place names are even worse.
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blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2008/08/18/should_the_comm...
blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2008/08/18/should_the_commentariat_pronounce_foreign_names_properly
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Amongst the normal rhetoric and chest beating vernacular was the following handful of phonetic spellings for various countries, cities, and foreign leaders: Kyrgyzstan [KEYR-geez-stan]; Mauritania [moor-EH-tain-ee-a];
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www.gadling.com/2007/09/27/bush-gets-help-pronouncing-d...
www.gadling.com/2007/09/27/bush-gets-help-pronouncing-difficult-foreign-names/
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The script of the President's address to the 192-nation UN General Assembly, which was accidentally distributed to journalists, revealed he is given a phonetic guide to key foreign names including countries and their leaders. ... Of course he's given phonetic guides to pronounce the names and foreign counties and leaders.
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digg.com/world_news/White_House_Releases_Bush_s_Guide_t...
digg.com/world_news/White_House_Releases_Bush_s_Guide_to_Those_Funny_Foreign_Names_by_Mistake
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Job applicants with English-sounding names have a greater chance of getting interviews than those with Chinese, Pakistani or Indian names, a new study by University of British ... For resumés with foreign names and education, call backs nearly doubled when the applicant had held one previous job in Canada.
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www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/05/20/bc-...
www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/05/20/bc-ubc-job-study.html
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