How to say: Ferenc Gyurcsány
13:04 UK time, Monday, 2 October 2006
A guide to names and words in the news, from Lena Olausson of the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Pronunciation Unit.
"This week's pronunciation is the Hungarian prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsány. The surname is a bit of a tongue-twister, both the first and the last sounds are foreign to English ears. In our usual - slightly anglicised - treatment, the best recommendation we can give is: FERR-ents JOOR-chaany (-j as in Jack, -ch as in church, -ny as in manual). The accent over the a in the surname is an indication of vowel length, not stress. In Hungarian, the stress always falls on the first syllable."
(For a guide to our phonetic pronunciations, click here.)
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