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Re: NOTICE of REVOKATION
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Date: 
Mon, 20 Nov 2000 04:37:05 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:

Pine-ee-ah-zek.  See, my guess is that it would not follow english and the
Pien would be pronounced as two syllables.  Or possibly more Germanic where
it would have a long E sound rather than a long I.

Those variants are all close enough. My relatives use all of those variants,
and none of them are "wrong".

Where people really go off the rails is that they don't keep the letters in
the right order. I get Peezniak, Piniaski, Pinziak, Pinekski Pizinikski and
godknowswhatall else. (putting ski on the end is a common mistake. Everyone
in the US "knows" that Polish names end in ski)

In the 1600s my
family name was spelled Schlieczkberndt (next generation Schlizckberndt,
then Schlickbernd).  I had always suspected the extra e and t, but I have no
idea where that z came from and how it was pronounced.  Why oh why didn't
they keep hacking letters off!  :-)

Well, see, your name actually *has* too many letters if you want some
consonants removed... It's one thing to remove vowels, but consonants? :-)

++Lar



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(...) Pine-ee-ah-zek. See, my guess is that it would not follow english and the Pien would be pronounced as two syllables. Or possibly more Germanic where it would have a long E sound rather than a long I. (...) Ah, well, as you said, no one (...) (24 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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