"Birkholz, James" wrote: > > We've seen the surname "Cop" written many ways: Coop, Csoop, Czoop > But it seems to have stabilized at Co~p. > > We are curious about the pronounciation and how the earlier spellings fit. > > James and Tami Birkholz Certain archaic letter combinations occurred in Hungarian family names. cz = c in modern spelling ch, ts = cs in modern spelling Some Croatian characters (letters) employ diacritic-accent marks (i.e. caret, caron, hac^ek, or strés^ica) Croatia formalized their alphabet about 1850 with the introduction of a diacritical system. Example, letters "c" v c pronounced as " ch " in English word ch-urch. c' pronounced as " ch " in English word ch-eap. c is pronounced as " ts " in English word tse-tse. The Croatian records microfilmed have greater linguistic diversity than for most other geographic regions. Latin, Croatian, Slovene, Serbian, German, Hungarian, or Italian are possible languages used.