[Magdalen] Mispronunciation (was Re: List sibs departed from this life)

[Esther Williamson]

 From the time of my first marriage in 1954 until my second one in 2004 
I was an Ohl. Always "Ohl, O-H-L".  When we moved to Virginia we 
discovered that those with the most southern accent could not pronounce 
it much less spell it.

Esther

On 10/30/2015 10:02 PM, Charles Wohlers wrote:
> Well, none of you are "blessed" with a name like mine - which, 
> whenever I mention it to someone I don't know (or, often to those I do 
> know), it's always "Wohlers, W-O-H-L-E-R-S". I *always* spell it out 
> for people, so I save time before they either misspell it or ask how 
> to spell it. Otherwise I typically get "Wholers" or some such. So it's 
> pronounced WOE-lurz, not HOO-lurz.
>
> (Of course, the German relatives would say "VO-lurz", but that would 
> confuse English-speakers just too much).
>
> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
>