Klarinet Archive - Posting 000830.txt from 1998/08

From: Neil Leupold <nleupold@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] David Niethamer - and Neil Leupold
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 10:09:39 -0400

On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Edwin V. Lacy wrote:

> OK, I will guess that the "eu" should pronounced as "oy", and so that your
> name should be pronounced "LOY-pold." It wouldn't surprise me if it might
> have been Anglicized or Americanized to rhyme with "loophole." So, how
> close am I?

Woo-hoo! Give that man a cigar! The former is 100% correct.
But I let people say the latter, or even "LEE-you-pold" if
that's how they first perceive it. I pronounce it the way
my immigrant parents did (they both came from Gemany). LOY.

Good guess, Ed!

Neil

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