Re: A question for hungarians

From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Mon Feb 04 2002 - 15:40:16 CET


On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:11:21AM +0100, Werner Haas nicely wrote:
> Hello Michele,
>
>
> > Paul Erdos was an important mathematicians, from Hungary (dead in 1998).
> > Erdos is written with a double '' (acute accent) over the 'o'. I'm speaking
> > about acute accents, not double (..) or similar.
> >
> > My problem is: how must be pronunced? Erdosh?
>
>
> According to my wife, who knows such things: Erdoesh ("oe" like in
> "oeuvre").
>

"Oeuvre", the french word? Ok, I can reproduce but --let me say -- the
name sound very bad in my langue.

Michele

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