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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Einstein (was: Pronouncing...)
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In article <3fu7gc$i1j@gordon.enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>Daniel von Brighoff (deb5@midway.uchicago.edu) writes:
>>"We" clearly refers back to "We Americans."  I've never heard of anyone
>>of any national background saying [einstein] in my entire life.
>
>Wouldn't that be the way an Austrian or a Swiss-German would
>pronounce it?

Hunh?  Why wouldn't they at least say [einStein]?  After all, in Swiss,
all /st/ clusters become /St/.  Someone said that there was an Ice-
landic name 'Einsteinn' pronounced in that way but it would never be
used for the famous physicist except in jest.

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