Anglicization

[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/8/2010 08:44 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

>The wisdom I received long ago, though I've never personally and absolutely
>verified it, is that the pronunciation of foreign names and words in English
>was almost always anglicized by the intelligentsia (and presumably most
>everyone else) up until the 20th Century.

One can see that in the attempts at phonetic spelling in the 18th
century.  E.g., "Lewis" for "[King] Louis".

For another kind of anglicization, one sees "Hyacinth" Paoli for "Giacinto".

Joel

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