[Magdalen] Fwd: Harvest

[Scott Knitter]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
<magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> And you have our own Scott Knitter.  I've forgotten.  Do you  say
> Ki-NITT-er or NIT-er, Scott?

Typical midwestern American: Nidder. I was once laughed at for this by
a highly superior jet-setter to whom I was introduced.

But I gladly allowed my German professors to call me Herr Knitter,
complete with K and fully pronounced t's.

If you live in Fowler, Michigan, your name is one of the following
three: Koenigsknecht, Armbrustmacher, or Thelen. I worked with a woman
whose maiden name was the former, which she sometimes abbreviated as
"K-13." :) But when she pronounced the whole thing, it came out
something like "kah-NISH-connect." The German way would be
"KERN-ichs-knekt" with the OE equivalent to that in Goethe or Danke
Schoen (a nonrhotic "ur" rather than "ay," never mind Wayne Newton's
Danke Shayn, closer to Yiddish).


-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA