THOMAS, BRIAN M (ATTSI) wrote:
PS Zeljko: In Hungary you do put given name first, correct? and socially it is proper to address or refer to someone by his given name? I'd love to see a phonetic spelling of your name, which to an Anglophone contains three consecutive consonants, though I know that 'j', descended as it is from the Greek iota, is effectively a vowel in some Eastern European languages... On the bright side, there's no chance of absent-mindedly typing a more familiar (to me) spelling as I did to Gunter.
In Hungary, given names traditionally come after the family name. I read this in Wikipedia because I'm not from Hungary. :) I'm not far from the border, though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osijek#Institutions_and_industries Hungary is straight above. Although domain .hr associate to Hungary, their 2-letter ISO code is "hu". "hr" stands for Croatia, because our local name is Hrvatska. I was surprised when I noticed that GMANE added national flag to my posts. It is common here to write given name first, or to use encyclopedic format: family, given (not so common) I'm not sure how write it phonetically. It is made of 5 letters (first has reversed caret on top): v Z e lj k o Let's try pronunciation: v Z like first letter in "Jet'aime" e like "a" in "fat" lj try to say "l" and "y" at the same time k as in English o like "o" in "top" You can record it and sent it to me to check did I described it correctly.