The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #146685   Message #3397592
Posted By: Dave MacKenzie
30-Aug-12 - 11:37 AM
Thread Name: BS: BBC America and names
Subject: RE: BS: BBC America and names
In my experience very few anglophones can pronounce non-English names correctly -my clan has more or less given up, so that even Hugh Dan on BBC Alba is mispronouncing MacCoinneach in Gaelic. America seems to be worse than England in this respect, especially with Polish names, where 'ow' is consistently pronounced as in cow rather than as of. Some familes have given up and changed their spelling, eg Mingus (Menzies) or Powlus (Paulus).