The College of William & Mary, Dept. of Modern Languages, has a guide to German Pronunciation online with examples at: http://tinyurl.com/8mc4f . The RealPlayer media player is required to hear the examples. Jim Rickenbacker Kingwood, TX Home Page: http://borisbrooks.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <Posnsrch@aol.com> To: <SWITZERLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 8:50 AM Subject: Re: [SWITZ] RE: Wegmuller research --snip-- > Could you tell me what each vowel with an umlaut sounds like in > German/Swiss? I have HÖSER from Posen and they pronounced it much like "Hay-ser" in > English, thus spelling got changed. Is that the general rule for ö? I do know that > ß is just a double "s", so sound is "sss". Correct? I have also have KLAESI > from CH, but no umlaut found on records... > > What are the pronunciations of ü ? ö ? ä ? in the native tongue? Thanks, and > others may thank you too...I may not be alone in my ignorance :) > > Regards from Nellie, > a 68-yr-old root digger > in Texas, where the ground never freezes (expecting 80 degree high today, 26 > Dec)