Need help in Polish (FWD)

[Devin Browne]

Hi all - A woman from another list I belong to is
trying to find out the origins of her Polish last
name, but needs some help from a Polish speaker.
Please respond directly to Sarah if you can help her
out.

Devin


--- Sarah m ponton <sponton at juno.com> wrote:
> Thanks so much for your help.
> I am researching my polish (supposedly) surname of
> "Moshenek"  and am at
> a dead end because this is an amercanized version of
> the true surname.
> Because Americans wrote down want they heard and
> most likely did not
> speak Polish, they wrote it down like it sounded to
> them with our
> alphabet.  I wanted a polish speaker to look at the
> name and tell me how
> it might have been spelled originally so I can begin
> to research it
> through Polish sources. Any help that could be given
> or advice will be
> greatly appreciated.
> Thanks!
> Sarah Moshenek Ponton  (sponton at juno.com)
>
>
> On Sat, 28 Jul 2001 05:48:51 -0700 (PDT) Devin P
> Browne
> <devinbrowne at yahoo.com> writes:
> > I don't speak Polish, but I belong to a list for
> > teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.
> If
> > you'd like, I could post a message from you onto
> that
> > list.  If so, just respond and include any message
> > you'd like to send and I'll be happy to get it
> posted.
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > Devin

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