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RE: Auger

Dear Mike,



You were right! I was born, raised, and educated in 

Basel, the Swiss city across the French-Swiss border 

from that "german-speaking province of France" called

"Alsace" in French or "Elsass" in German. Normally,

German speakers have exquisite problems understanding

Alsatian, and when those Alsatians speak French as 

they do when are pronouncing the name Auger, it is 

something like "O.J." with a very soft "J". Slowly, I

am losing the capability, but I could once do a quite

credible Alsatian imitation. "Ah, ces Francais!" Sorry,

e-mail does not allow me to put a "circonflex" under 

the "c".



Cordial regards,



Fritz



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-----Original Message-----

From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

[mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]On Behalf Of Stabin, Michael

Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 6:54 AM

To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: Auger







Regarding the pronunciation of "Auger", I have always believed what I

found on this web site (http://zhurnal.net/ww/zw?PhysicsWords):



"Don't say AW-gher like the drill, but rather "O. J." or even "OH zhay!"

with a French twinkle in your eyes."



I taught this recently at a short course, but was challenged by one of

the students that Auger was actually raised in a German speaking

province in France, and that the pronunciation might be more like

"OW-gher". Not hugely important, I know, but now I'm curious. Anyone

have any way of verifying or refuting this claim?



Mike