How do you pronounce Huygens?

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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Hoy-ginz.

Named after the man who discovered Titan.

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" :-)

If you were to pronounce it correctly, hardly anyone in the U.S. would
recognize what you were saying. I've heard it--to my ears, it sounds
something like "HOW-(g)hunz," where the "(g)h" indicates a slightly
guttural sound, like "ch" in Scottish "loch." I remember in the most
recent winter Olympics, a name beginning "Luyt-" was pronounced (I guess
vaguely correctly) as "LOUT-." (The vowel sound I've represented isn't
quite correct, but most people don't have an International Phonetic
Alphabet character set, so you'll have to just deal.)

Ordinarily Anglicized, I have heard both "HI-gunz" and "HOY-gunz." I
prefer the latter myself, and it does seem to be more popular where I
am, but there's no inherent reason for that, I don't think.

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

http://frank.harvard.edu/~paulh/misc...huygens_96.mp3

(Courtesy John Steinberg, who posted this link the last time the
question was asked.)

Best,
Stephen

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


http://frank.harvard.edu/~paulh/misc/huygens.htm

MP3 file available here (with bonus name: van Leeuwenhoek!).

Ed T.

I attended a lecture last night given by Toby Smith, University of
Washington astronomy professor and the assistant editor of electronic
publishing for the Astronomical Journal. He is also a planetary specialist.
He gave a talk on the Huygens mission and he pronounced it "HOY-guns"

-Paul S. Walsh
http://www.pswalsh.com



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

http://frank.harvard.edu/~paulh/misc...huygens_96.mp3

(Courtesy John Steinberg, who posted this link the last time the question
was asked.)

Best,
Stephen

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On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 09:44:27 -0800, Eric wrote:

How do I pronounce "Huygens?"
Kind of like the way I pronounce "phallacy." ;o)

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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."

Now, how do _I_ pronounce it? Since I heard the correct pronunciation
when Mr. Steinberg first posted the above link, I sometimes try to
pronouce it that way; more often I make it rhyme with "toy dens"
because English speakers are more likely to know who I'm talking about.

Davoud

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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."


George Bernard Shaw pointed out that "ghoti" could be pronounced as
"fish"

gh - as in enough
o - as in women
ti - as in action

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"Davoud" wrote in message
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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.