Probably the easiest way to figure it out is if we provide rhymes. Shwobe rhymes with earlobe. My problem with spelling it as Schwob, which is sort of the Germanic way is that as an English speaker I think of “school” and then pronounce it to rhyme and sound identical with “squab” and that seem very unfortunate to me. I wonder if that is what you do, and did anyone else think that? Sent from Windows Mail From: stewgill Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 5:11 PM To: Joe Psotka, dvhh Gee, after all that, I'm still not sure how it's supposed to be pronounced, never having heard it before. :-D Stewart G. -------------------------------------------------- From: <joepsotka@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 3:31 PM To: "dvhh" <donauschwaben-villages@rootsweb.com> Subject: [DVHH] Shwovish, Shwobe, Shwoveh > > > > > Many of us Shwoveh are unhappy about being called „Danube Swabians“ as a > leftover of the Weimar colonialism and Nazi „Drang nach Osten“ > > And so we much prefer the words the Children of the Danube use for them > selves. > > In > > > > Emigrants and Exiles: Book Three, Volume Two > > By Henry A. Fischer > > p. 1386 > > He tries to write these Shwovish words in English and a sort of German > that is not very successful. > > He lists: „Schwovisch“ – and says that this is how 'Schwove“ call > themselves. > > I find this ill advised for several reasons. > > The first spelling, in German would be read as „shwofish“ which is > clearly not what Fischer wants to convey. > > The second word in English would be read a silent „e“ at the end, which is > clearly not what Fischer wants to convey.; and in German would be read as > „shwofeh“ which is clearly not what Fischer wants to convey. > > Accordingly I recommend that we all use the Englishified versions for the > Germanic „Schwowe“, Schwob“ and „Schwowisch“ > > And write them as Shwoveh, Shwobe, and Shwovish. These capture the right > sounds of what was and remains a spoken and largely unwritten language of > our ancestors. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message