[New-Poetry] Pronouncing Roethke

[Millicent Accardi]

In a book about pronouncing literary names that I rec'd back in college, it?states that Roethke was pronounced Rett-khuh.

Is that incorrect?


Cheers,

Millicent Borges Accardi


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From: Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at gmail.com>
Sent: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 6:50 am
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Pronouncing Roethke



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:



German pronunciation would end with a sort of shwa, right?




Anny Ballardini wrote:


I have my own, in the German way, the surname seems from German origins, or?




On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net <mailto:bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>> wrote:




? ? Roger Day wrote:




? ? ? ? isn't it Roethk-er?




? ? Various people claiming to know have given me different

? ? pronunciations.? Mine is REHTH key.? I never heard the "er"

? ? pronuciation.




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