Is it pronounced steen or stein?
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Is it pronounced steen or stein?
‘Stein’ is a German word pronounced in standard German as if ‘shtine’. Yiddish speakers pronounced it as if ‘shtain’. In English speaking countries there are broadly two parallel pronunciations: one is not more correct than the other: ‘stine’ and ‘steen’.
Is it pronounced rose or rosé?
‘Rose’ like the flower, with an ‘ay’ sound added to the end pronounced like the ‘ay’ in ‘hay’. But someone helping me pick out wine at the store politely corrected my pronunciation. He said that it is pronounced simply ‘rose,’ like the flower.
How do Jews pronounce Stein?
For Americans and other Anglo-Saxon Jews, it’s pronounced “steen” (or sometimes “stine”). For Germanic Jews (and by that I mean still living in Germanic countries, not just by ancestry), it’s pronounced “shtine”. For Israeli Jews, it’s pronounced “shtein”.
Why do Americans pronounce Stein wrong?
So to get back to the speaker’s original point: Stein is spelled with a yud-yud שטיין and so became [shtajn] rhyming with “mine” in Central Yiddish, and that’s how large numbers of American Jews pronounce the word, and names containing it.
What kind of name is Rose?
Rose is a given female name. It is a late Latin name derived from rosa, meaning “rose”….Rose (given name)
| Gender | Female |
| Origin | |
|---|---|
| Word/name | Germanic or Latin |
| Meaning | “fame-kind” |
| Region of origin | Germanic countries (Germany, England, Scotland, the Netherlands, Scandinavian region) or Roman Empire (Latin) |
How does Shel Silverstein pronounce his name?
shel silverstein Pronunciation. shel sil·ver·stein.
How do you pronounce Leonard Bernstein’s name?
Pronunciation: Len-erd “Burn”-stine.
Is it pronounced Frankenstein or Frankenstein?
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: No, it’s pronounced “Fronkensteen.”
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