CWRT-DC Zoom Meeting on Lincoln Conspirators

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(05-24-2021 05:47 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Funnily I have always pronounced his name the "English" way - as I think an English speaker would say it. Why? Because the first name is spelled the English way. In German, it would be Georg, not Geroge, and the German "Georg" is pronounced very different from the English "George". Subsequently the family name flows better in English afterwards. I will try to record the German pronunciation respectively how I would say it (Atzerodt was from Thuringia, and there's a strong regional dialect...), maybe Roger can somehow make it accessible on the forum.
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I bow to Eva's expertise. Eva, you might like to try this and tell us (if it works) whether the pronunciation is any good ...

https://context.reverso.net/translation/...h/Atzerodt
you click on the "loudspeaker" icon under the word English

sounds to me like 'Atzey-rot' ... but strangely George in the example sounds like the English version of George
"Am 20. April 1865 wurde George Atzerodt, einer der Verschwörer bei der Ermordung von Abraham Lincoln, in Germantown festgenommen."

(I'm learning German at U3A ... "University for the 3rd Age"
https://u3ahawthorn.org.au/