Just how does one pronounce "Sandesjo"?
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Good question... Once you get past the Anna Sandesjo entries on Google it seems to be a Swedish surname. So I'm going to take the pronunciation of fjord and guess it sounds more like Sandesyo..,..yo as in yo-yo.
That is exactly how I pronounced the name.
I thought it was Spanish, so I've already read it as "San-Day-Hoe."
I pronounced it san-DEZSH-oh, without bothering to look up any cultural references...
Hopefully, we'll get it soon enough from the masticatory orifice of the original equine. I didn't realize I was not the only one with little more than a guess.
This is close. The stress should be on the first syllable, though:
SAN-dezsh-oh
It is a Swedish surname, and that was how I heard the woman pronounce her name.
Good to know. I figured I was the only one who was uncertain about how to pronounce it.
That was my guess too.
i just pronounced it san-day-ho and didnt even think about it.
how's dezsh pronounced? is it, like desh? or what?
how's dezsh pronounced? is it, like desh? or what?
Just say it SAN-duh-zho.
It's spelled Dezsh, but it's pronounced Throat Warbler Mangrove.
Yes, Anna Sandesjö definitely sounds Swedish, now when you mention it. But as a Swede myself, I never made the connection and always assumed the surname was Spanish, the way it was written. 
Only if you mean British English. Americans would pronounce the R sound at the end there. I often see foreign pronunciations spelled with British English in mind, thus misleading American readers into inserting R sounds that shouldn't be there. Like "Gurr-tuh" for Goethe, "Girdle" for mathematician Kurt Gödel, or "Sharr-day" for the singer Sade.
The problem, though, is that there's no sound in American English that really corresponds to that Germanic "oe"/British non-rhotic "er" sound. So you pretty much have to go with the "R" spelling but specify that it must be spoken with an English accent. (Though it's easier with Sade -- just say it's "Shah-day," and Americans will get it.)
It's spelled Dezsh, but it's pronounced Throat Warbler Mangrove.
You are a very silly man and I'm not going to interview you.
Sounds like experience pronouncing either a Scandinavian language (I'm a quarter Norwegian, but the only words I know are "Uff-da", "lefse," and "lutefisk"), or just plain old High German (2 years in high school, of which I barely remember enough to order a plate of turkey schnitzel, "mit ein Glass Wasser, und ein Glass Milch"), would be helpful.
Thanks. Glad to get the clarification from the horse's masticatory orifice (and note that I have at no time called anybody a horse's defecatory orifice! [Although I can think of at least one published ST writer who could qualify as that portion of the equine anatomy])
And of course, it's never a good idea to look a gift equine (or, as bn Bem said in the Alan Dean Foster novelization, a gift Pandronian zintar) in the masticatory orifice.
(Hmm. Alan Dean Foster. I love the way he can come up with alien-sounding words that are completely pronouncable, although even he had to come to my rescue on a few of them.)
Thanks. Glad to get the clarification from the horse's masticatory orifice (and note that I have at no time called anybody a horse's defecatory orifice! [Although I can think of at least one published ST writer who could qualify as that portion of the equine anatomy])
And of course, it's never a good idea to look a gift equine (or, as bn Bem said in the Alan Dean Foster novelization, a gift Pandronian zintar) in the masticatory orifice.
(Hmm. Alan Dean Foster. I love the way he can come up with alien-sounding words that are completely pronouncable, although even he had to come to my rescue on a few of them.)
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