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I work in a call center and I do my best to sound out people last names. I find it embarrassing to "murder" someone's last name and some people can get offended by this. Does anyone know of a resource ... "Why is it not difficult to recall Thelma and Louise last names?" (2 answers)
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askville.amazon.com/website-teaches-pronounce-difficult...
askville.amazon.com/website-teaches-pronounce-difficult-names/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=7220280
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We've all been there. You look at a list of names for a meeting or at a new business card and you have absolutely no idea there was a last name with t... ... No idea how to pronounce last names like “Nyugen” or “Dokht”? Look the name up and play the embedded audio file to hear it.
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www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/11/learn_how_pronounce_names...
www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/11/learn_how_pronounce_names_correctly-2/
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This application will help you learn how to pronounce the sounds of Names. On the page for each name, you can click to hear them pronounced by a native speaker. You must, of course, have a sound card and speakers or headphones connected to your computer, ... Content © 2000 Brian McCaul ; Last Update: 4/23/2000 ; 7:35PM...
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www.briansdesign.com/multi/prototype/name.html
www.briansdesign.com/multi/prototype/name.html
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Author Jon Scieszka offers a handy guide to pronouncing tough names, like his. ... Sometimes I am not sure I am pronouncing writers’ names correctly. Tomie dePaola is an example. I say “Tommy d’ Paula,” but am I right? . . . Shel Silverstein is another example. Is it “Silver Steen” or “Silver Stine”?
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www.hbook.com/exhibit/article_scieszka.html
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I need some opinions on a friend's last name. ... Pronunciation of names - Name pronunciation ... I think you would have a hard time convincing anybody that he is pronouncing his own name incorrectly. On the other hand, if most people pronounce it the other way maybe he should stop getting mad, and just say "my family pronounces...
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www.englishforums.com/English/LastNamePronunciation/xhv...
www.englishforums.com/English/LastNamePronunciation/xhvd/post.htm
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I have a number of phone books that I have collected on my travels and let the students choose their own names, with guidance when necessary. They choose not only first names but also two last names. They start the year by signing their names with three Spanish names and their English last name.
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www.cortland.edu/flteach/FAQ/FAQ-Names.html
www.cortland.edu/flteach/FAQ/FAQ-Names.html
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Names created in the 19th century are generally given the traditional Latin accent (based on the length of the next-to- last syllable); names created more recently are usually stressed on word-roots regardless of where Latin rules would assign the accent.
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www.dinosauria.com/dml/names/plesi.html
www.dinosauria.com/dml/names/plesi.html
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The Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary is a machine-readable pronunciation dictionary for North American English that contains over 125,000 words and their transcriptions.
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www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict
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Climo, Shirley (author of The Egyptian Cinderella) ; Pronounced CLY-mo (first syllable rhymes with "why;" last syllable rhymes with "sew")
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mainst.monterey.k12.ca.us/library/libpg/Dictionary/dict...
mainst.monterey.k12.ca.us/library/libpg/Dictionary/dict.html
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