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Slavic languages are a little different. Take Polish, for example. Once...


... had a neighbor, last name of Przybala. First time I met her, I said her name in Polish -- which is pronounced "SHIB-wa", believe it or not. Polish is a language where large sets of consonants often represent simple phonemes. So... przy = "shhh". And that L, in Polish it should actually be an L with a line thru it (they have letters we don't). That particular letter represents English "w".

Ergo, shhh - ba - w - a. Said at speed, SHIB-wa!

Well, turned out this lady was pretty Americanized and had been saying her name her whole life as "per-zee-BA-la"! She gave me a funny look. When I explained, she said....

"So that's why those people in New Hampshire kept calling me that!"

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So the way it's ALWAYS been KEY-evv is really just the non-Slavic way to pronounce (and spell) this city.

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Posted: 02/27/2022 at 12:12PM



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