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We're quite an insular lot and not that receptive to using foreign pronunciations, possibly for fear of sounding pretentious. I know it took me a while to get used to saying A(y)ax Amsterdam as it is correctly spoken and not Ajax as in the cleaning product. Every day's a school day Sludge.
Surely someone has said to these blokes they are pronouncing these names wrong
It's like someone saying klanelli , you helping them to say it properly then them not bothering and saying klanelli
What is so wrong about trying to pronounce a person's name the way they pronounce it themselves? If your name was Dafydd, would you be OK with English people calling you Daffid?
Considering Sludge's comments regarding the Welsh language, I imagine he'd want to be called Dave
We're quite an insular lot and not that receptive to using foreign pronunciations, possibly for fear of sounding pretentious. I know it took me a while to get used to saying A(y)ax Amsterdam as it is correctly spoken and not Ajax as in the cleaning product. Every day's a school day Sludge.
Day by day my Polish is improving but I had to throw away my concept of the English alphabet before I started to get it. J is also pronounced like a Y in Polish, I think Rz is the closest to a J
Day by day my Polish is improving but I had to throw away my concept of the English alphabet before I started to get it. J is also pronounced like a Y in Polish, I think Rz is the closest to a J
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