Danke sehr, John.
Don Roddy
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JRodenburg@aol.com wrote :
In a message dated 6/29/2004 6:42:21 PM Central Standard Time,
Rena@rena24.fsnet.co.uk
writes:
, of Schloss
Ricklingen, I assumed his surname was pronounced "BUH fer".
Last fall I met one of the American descendants of Anton B�FER, Alan
BOEFER,
and was surprised to learn his family pronounces their surname "BAY fer".
Can someone tell me if the Plat Deutsch pronunciation of "�" is "ay", or
if
this is just an American aberration ?
My mothers name is Schr�der. We pronounce it schrader (long a) when we do the
German pronunciation and schroder (long o) when we pronounce English.
Viele Gr��e aus Illinois
John Rodenburg
Werner, Brunkhorst, Steinke, Krause
Schr�der, Meyer, Zum Mallen, R�hrdanz