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in reply to a message by Ivayla
That statement is a bit curious: the surname is used in more than one linguistic area, and I am trying to figure out what some Bangladeshi people will think when you declare that they have been pronouncing their last name wrong all along since it is pronounced differently in Pakistan :-)
But I am a puzzled about the prnounication hak. Hak as in the English word to hack, or the indefinite vowel as in puck? Depending on the place, I have heard both the puck and the hawk pronounciations. If there is a pronounciation close to hack, it would be interesting to know the region/linguistic group it comes from.
But I am a puzzled about the prnounication hak. Hak as in the English word to hack, or the indefinite vowel as in puck? Depending on the place, I have heard both the puck and the hawk pronounciations. If there is a pronounciation close to hack, it would be interesting to know the region/linguistic group it comes from.
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