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Re: unpronouncable
Posted By: Howard, on host 209.86.38.88
Date: Monday, February 12, 2001, at 07:17:58
In Reply To: unpronouncable posted by Gahalia on Saturday, February 10, 2001, at 22:17:34:

> In the college dorm I live in, everyone has their names affixed on the door in various ways, depending on the hall they live on. For example, on my old there were laminated message boards with our names that people could write on. On my new hall, there are just square pieces of pastel paper with the names. *Anyway*... next to one name I saw in parentheses the name of Eunhye. That has to be one of the most unpronouncable names I have ever come across. At least, I have no idea how I would pronounce it. I'm sure that the fantasy name generator would never return something like that. (I do think the name Eunhye is interesting, however. Just one I would never use in my writing, for example, lest readers spend all their time figuring out how to pronounce the name in their heads as they read it and no time at all paying attention to the story.)
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> Ga"just thought I'd share"halia
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> it's late (early) and I need to go to bed

This an easy one. It's pronounced "un-hi."
It is a very common name in Eastern Kentucky where I lived until I was 15. I knew a family of Eunhye's who lived at Combs, just outside of Hazard in Perry County. They were big people with straight black hair, but they didn't look anything like Koreans. People just assumed that they were from Poland. The father had a car repair and welding shop and the oldest boy worked in a coal mine until he was drafted. The other boys were in high school. I remember the only girl is the family as being mean as a snake. She pushed me backwards off a fence and almost killed me. I was about 10 or 12 and she was maybe 15.

There were several Eunhye kids at the school I went to in Hazard, but none in my class. One of the clerks at my dad's store was Eunice Eunhye and they called her Double E, because of her initals on her sales slips.

There was a grocery store in Walkertown, I think, that was called Eunhye Market. I remember seeing it when we rode by on our way to Prestonsburg. There were plenty of other people name Eunhye, but those are the only ones I can remember.

I suppose the un-hi pronounciation could be a local thing. You wouldn't believe how many different ways they mispronounced Murrill in that area.
Howard

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