Re: Shelagh--how do you pronounce your name>>>

Aha Elsje ,, don`t we know itr when the WHOLE workld Pronounces Van Goch th Wromg way , and Me and Haifa the worng way [ps for you Haifa the HA is pronounced like Go in Goch]....Prononciations are very much connected to geography and culture ,. For Hebrew speakers many Biblical Originated names sound very strange in the mouthes of Non Hebrew speakers,,, Any way i asked around Scotish origined people and they told me to say SheLagh ,,,,prouncing the GH like the Dutch pronounch Go in Van goch or the Spaninsh pronounce the J in JUAN ,,,,, a nice Guttoral Kh ...of CH prononunced this way it makes into the Hebrew word YOURS ..[female singular ] mirjam

Aaaah Mirjam, maybe those Scottish people still have their lovely accents and can pronounce my name that way. Here, we just call me She La..... the gutteral part just wouldn't work for a Canadian accent. (smile)

Shelagh

Mirjam, you are right

I have just subscribed to the Scandinavian weaving magazine VAV. It now comes out in an English written version, No more translated insert. When I told my Danish weaving friend that I was subscribing to VAV, she told me that pronouce the A as a long sound as in wave. The V is the start and runs in the a soft W and then the long A sound follows it, with the V at the end I just had coppied what my weaving friends called it. Stand corrected. Els

PS VAV is a great magazine, I am sure that Aud most likely knows all about it.

Shelagh i answered you , but it came back ,,, we are a Very Gutural language speakers ,, mirjam