From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: steffen@sdaoden.eu (Steffen Nurpmeso) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:32:46 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Niklaus Wirth! In-Reply-To: References: <20180214231939.GB87639@eureka.lemis.com> Message-ID: <20180215173246.0ep3Z%steffen@sdaoden.eu> Dave Horsfall wrote: |On Thu, 15 Feb 2018, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: |>> His name is pronounced "vurt" |> |> Maybe some English speakers pronounce it like that. In German it's, |> well, "Wirth". English speakers might write it as "veart", where the |> "ea" is as in the word "hear" or "fear". | |I wasn't giving a pedantic pronunciation lesson; as you pointed out, there |is no direct English equivalent. Hell, the English even pronounce words |differently in different counties (and I should know). Just to add that (Gast)"Wirt"h is an innkeeper, and on the Nikolaus-Day children place shoes in front of their doors so that Nikolaus can put something in (chocolade!, for example). But if you would speak "e" just like "ea" than "Wert"h would surely be "Worth" it, too. I want to affiliate to the colony of thankful who appreciate your messages. Unfortunately i started collecting them just a few months ago and thus missed quite a lot of them. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)