[New-Poetry] Pronouncing Roethke

[Anny Ballardini]

Thanks, now I know.

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 3:08 PM, David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu> wrote:

> Roethke's name is pronounced "RETT-key," which I know because I have heard
> it from the lips of several of his former students and poets who knew him.
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> On Nov 7, 2008, at 7:27 AM, TheOldMole wrote:
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> German pronunciation would end with a sort of shwa, right?
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> Anny Ballardini wrote:
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> I have my own, in the German way, the surname seems from German origins,
> or?
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> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net <
> mailto:bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>>> wrote:
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>     Roger Day wrote:
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>         isn't it Roethk-er?
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>     Various people claiming to know have given me different
>     pronunciations.  Mine is REHTH key.  I never heard the "er"
>     pronuciation.
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>     --Bob G.
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