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[QUOTE="TeethWhitener, post: 6822101, member: 511972"] Peierls is tough in English. It ends up sounding like “piles,” but inevitably most people try to squeeze an r sound in at semi-random locations. Ramanujan is accented on the second syllable (RaMAnujan, as opposed to RamaNUjan, which seems to be a common pronunciation among Westerners). Chandrasekhar [I]is[/I] accented on the third syllable. Also, it’s his given name, but his culture uses patronymics instead of family names, so he is properly referred to as “Chandrasekhar.” (Kind of like Björk, which, incidentally, rhymes with “work, not “pork.”) My favorite is Wannier. Half the people I know pronounce it with a German accent (VanEER), half pronounce it with a French accent (wanYAY). Some poor confused individuals do both (vanYAY). I wanted to know for myself whether he was French or German…it turns out he was Swiss. His given names are clearly English (Gregory Hugh). But he’s from Basel so I have to assume his name is pronounced vanEER. [/QUOTE]
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