“It did take him a bit of time to learn to pronounce my name, but he was always apologetic when he said it wrong, and always insisted on the importance of getting such things right. He was easily the most inspirational and challenging teacher I’ve had…he just insisted that every ...
Be careful of names difficult to pronounce, unless it becomespart of the story. I created a character namedWojciechowskiand had him tell another character, “Just call me W.” 6. Keep character names distinct. If I had26 characters in my novel, I’d start each of their names with a di...
“doing we” through surnames is gendered in complex ways beyond that suggested by evidence on the practices of heterosexual couples. It would be illuminating, too, to gain a greater understanding of the associations that heterosexual men make among surnames, spousal and parental relationships, and ...
Ng (pronounced [ŋ̍]; English approximation often /ɪŋ/ or /ɛŋ/) is a Cantonese transliteration of the Chinese surnames 吳/吴 (Mandarin Wú) and 伍 (Mandarin Wǔ). Is it pronounced lychee or lychee? According to The Cambridge Dictionary, you can pronounce lychee two ways. Th...
That's what the h does when you add it to a consonant as in "Th". Now do the same with the English word "pup". Feel the puff? That sound is written 'Ph'. 'Kh' is the first syllable in English "cat". Now you know how to pronounce 'Th', 'Ph', and 'Kh' which are the ...
Is the name easy to pronounce and spell and does the acronym look ok? Is my business name shorter rather than longer? Did I include a geographic location in my name? Usually, you shouldn’t. What do other people think of the name?
While catchy looking and unconventional, misspelling or removing vowels from words to create a business name can come with its flaws. Removing vowels can make it harder to read and pronounce your business name. We dare you to try and pronounceBHLDN, a popular wedding attire brand (it’s “be...
Whatever you do, you have to check your name with several native speakers! This is especially true if you use the first two methods as it is very likely that you will pick names that don’t work very well or have unintended effects. If you’re okay with having a name that you think...
In this paper, we propose SpokenName2Vec , a novel and generic algorithm which addresses the synonym suggestion problem by utilizing automated speech generation, and deep learning to produce novel spoken name embeddings. These embeddings capture the way people pronounce names in a particular language...
That apostrophe you see on the O of Irish surnames is an Anglicization of a “síneadh fada,” an acute accent slanting to the right.A fada above a vowel means the vowel should be pronounced “long”– which is what fada means in Irish. Fadas are often dropped in English, but in Iri...