How do you pronounce Huygens?

Lets send "Dubbya" a letter and have him say it. Just for a giggle.

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Eric:
Thats been bugging me, I've heard it pronounced a bunch of different
ways
but what is correct?

What, indeed. As others have pointed out, the Dutch pronunciation is
at
http://frank.harvard.edu/~paulh/misc/pics/huygens_96.mp3. But you
and
I don't speak Dutch and we are unlikely to guess at the Dutch
pronunciation, because the spelling "Huygens" offers no hint to
English
speakers of the Dutch pronunciation. We're dealing with a language
that
has a name "Jaap" that is pronounced "yop," rhymes with "hope." What
English speaker would guess at that. I had no trouble with the "y,"
but
I had no clue that "aa" might be a long "o."

well, it does not. The dutch name Joop would be pronounced as "yop" rhymes
with "hope".
Jaap is completely different :-) I can't think of an english word that
rhymes with Jaap, sorry.

I had a French friend who insisted that " Dutch iz not a langwidge, it is
a dizeaze of zer sroat."

Since we're on the subject, how about "plossl"? They come with every
telescope, there are premium ones, cheap ones, super ones, sirius ones, GTO
ones, etc.,

But how do you say it. No vowel in the second syllable, that always messes me
up.

jt

Isn't it spelled with an umlaut: Plössl? The pronunciation would then be
similar to pleh-sel

Jmpngtiger wrote:

Since we're on the subject, how about "plossl"? They come with every
telescope, there are premium ones, cheap ones, super ones, sirius ones, GTO
ones, etc.,

But how do you say it. No vowel in the second syllable, that always messes me
up.

jt

On 17 Jan 2005 00:21:45 GMT, ospam (Jmpngtiger) wrote:

Since we're on the subject, how about "plossl"? They come with every
telescope, there are premium ones, cheap ones, super ones, sirius ones, GTO
ones, etc.,

But how do you say it. No vowel in the second syllable, that always messes me
up.

Actually, it's "Plössl". In the standard English alphabet it should be written
"Ploessl". That "ö" isn't really a sound found in English, though- close would
be something like the "i" in "bird". Most people seem to say it like "PLAH-sel".

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Eric wrote:
Thats been bugging me, I've heard it pronounced a bunch of different ways
but what is correct?
BTW: next time we are going to pass a world wide law that the name has to be
something simple like "Dave" or "Hal" :-)
Eric

See (and hear): http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=huygens

Mary Platinum-Wig on FOX pronounced it, git ready:

hee-geese.

Hee Hee for the Geese! Hilarious! But "Fox knows".
hsi




Eric wrote:

Thats been bugging me, I've heard it pronounced a bunch of different ways
but what is correct?
BTW: next time we are going to pass a world wide law that the name has to be
something simple like "Dave" or "Hal" :-)
Eric
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Byte=8 bits, a kilobyte is 1024 bytes
There is no such thing as a kibibit,mebibit etc

Sam Wormley wrote:
See (and hear): http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=huygens

#1. The "see" bit is incorrect, in both cases (you'd think that they'd
realise that both can't be correct, wouldn't you?).
#2. As regards "hear", I'm damned if I'm going to pay 20 bucks for
something that, in the light of the above, stands a good chance of
turning out to be wrong.

Best,
Stephen

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Eric wrote:

Thats been bugging me, I've heard it pronounced a bunch of different ways
but what is correct?
BTW: next time we are going to pass a world wide law that the name has to be
something simple like "Dave" or "Hal" :-)
Eric
--
Byte=8 bits, a kilobyte is 1024 bytes
There is no such thing as a kibibit,mebibit etc

I pronounce it "min" -- rhymes with "daniel joseph min."

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