I can read IPA. The vowel sounds in "de Bruijn" are not American English vowels, and I can describe how to produce them, but I'm wondering if it would just sound weird for you to stick Dutch pronunciation in the middle of an English sentence. I've heard people say "de broon" in English. Dutch is hard to pronounce, and nobody would fault you for that Anglicization. You can approximate the Dutch pronunciation, if you must, by saying "brain", but rounding your lips as if to say "broon". On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 10:50 AM Christian Lawson-Perfect < christianperfect@gmail.com> wrote:
Refer to the work of Rockingham, et al. for the canonical Scottish pronunciation of 'house' (and 'moose' and 'loose'): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jeu72y0f4Kc
On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 15:35, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
According to the IPA rendering that appears at the beginning of the webpage for the mathematician DeBruijn ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaas_Govert_de_Bruijn) and the page on Dutch pronunciation that it links to, the final vowel in his surname should be pronounced like the “ou” in the Scottish English pronunciation of the word “house”. But I don’t speak Scottish English (though I occasionally speak a parodic version based on Monty Python skits and other less-than-definitive phonological resources). Is there a wensite that will let me type “Scottish English” into one field and “house” into another so I can hear what the vowel sounds like?
I’ll be saying “DeBruijn” in a video and I want to get it as close to correct as I can.
... Though I’ve been advised that when it comes to pronouncing Dutch vowels it’s impossible for Americans to get it right, so the important thing is to say it in an American accent lest you mislead people into thinking your pronunciation is correct!
Thanks,
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