"Roger Ohlund" wrote in message
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"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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"Roger Ohlund" wrote in message
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...Wolfgang is BTW the only American that ever pronounced my
surname correctly...

A speech impediment that has devilled me since early childhood. You
are the first to comment on it in public.

Wolfgang
and, actually, i believe it was your home town.


Whoops! It was, wasn't it!?!?

Actually, what surprised me was that your pronunciation of the letter "Ö",
that is an O with two dots above it if that doesn't show in this post, was
the first ever said by an American that didn't sound as if he had a frog
down his throat.

Well, you'd already had a couple of beers.....and you DID have your back to
me. Evidently you didn't see me hacking up a small Rana.

So, I suspect your pronunciation of my surname would have been equally
well,
unless of course the "hlund" would have posed a problem.

Problem? It's pronounced just the way it's spelled......ainna?

In any case I wouldn't call it a speech impediment, more of a gift

Ahem.....well......

Wolfgang
who is pleased to defer to one of our german friends to hold forth on the
meaning of "gift".