[Ads-l] Dzsenifer Marozs án

[Joel Berson]

Although her name is not ordered Hungarian style.

Joel
      From: Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at NB.NET>
 To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU 
 Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2015 1:45 PM
 Subject: Re: [ADS-L] factoid or foolishness?
   
On 7/8/2015 7:23 AM, Amy West wrote:
> ....
>
> (On that note, this German reader/speaker was driven nuts by the
> spelling of the German soccer player's first name "Dszenifer". Yep:
> that's "Jennifer" auf Deutsch. Look at that cluster they have to use.
> "Dsch-" is what I think I've seen used before (as in "Dschungel"
> ["jungle']).
--

Apparently Dzsenifer Marozsán was born in Hungary, of Hungarian descent, 
and I guess her name is spelled Hungarian style.

-- Doug Wilson

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org



------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org