poll: how do you pronounce Kirsten

[Joyfulone]

Originally posted by DaisyDee:
As person of Scandanavian descent (Norwegian) I logically know that the correct pronounciation for her family would have been choice A. But, being the thoroughly Americanized person that I am, I pronounce it like Kersten. My family's last name is Iverson, which we pronounce EYE-ver-sun. Originally it would have been spelled Iversen, but many names anding in -sen were changed to -son when families immigrated to America. Our name literally means "son of Iver." The correct pronounciation would have been EE-ver-sen. Historically, the children's last name was taken for the first name of the father. For example, if your name was Lars Oleson, you were the son of Ole. If you had a son named Hans, he became Hans Larson, and so on.

On a total side note, as a huge fan of Little House on the Prairie growing up, I loved thinking how if the Oleson family had continued that tradition of passing on the father's name, instead of Willie Oleson, we would have had Willie Nelson!

<font color="#33CCCC"><font size="1">[ May 23, 2006 12:17 AM: Message edited by: DaisyDee ]</font></font>

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's all very interesting!

[DaisyDee]

As person of Scandanavian descent (Norwegian) I logically know that the correct pronounciation for her family would have been choice A. But, being the thoroughly Americanized person that I am, I pronounce it like Kersten. My family's last name is Iverson, which we pronounce EYE-ver-sun. Originally it would have been spelled Iversen, but many names anding in -sen were changed to -son when families immigrated to America. Our name literally means "son of Iver." The correct pronounciation would have been EE-ver-sen. Historically, the children's last name was taken for the first name of the father. For example, if your name was Lars Oleson, you were the son of Ole. If you had a son named Hans, he became Hans Larson, and so on.

On a total side note, as a huge fan of Little House on the Prairie growing up, I loved thinking how if the Oleson family had continued that tradition of passing on the father's name, instead of Willie Oleson, we would have had Willie Nelson!

<font color="#33CCCC" size="1">[ May 23, 2006 12:17 AM: Message edited by: DaisyDee ]</font>

[AGDancer]

I use to say it like B but then my cousin who has liked AG longer then me said I was saying it wrong and that it was said like A. So I have said it like A ever since.

[AGDancer]

I use to say it like B but then my cousin who has liked AG longer then me said I was saying it wrong and that it was said like A. So I have said it like A ever since.

[mori]

Originally posted by simplepretty:
I asked a Swedish woman how it is supposed to be pronounced and she sais "Schursten" actually, without even the K sound . . .

<font color="#33CCCC"><font size="1">[ May 22, 2006 03:50 PM: Message edited by: simplepretty ]</font></font>

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That is really interesting! I would like to actually hear it said correctly. I hate it when I find out I'm mispronouncing things....I always say it Keersten. I'm actually going to see if I can find a baby name site of swedish names that pronounces them. I found one for french names, which is why I know how to correctly pronounce my Noel's name. I'll post it if I do find one.

[QNPoohBear]

Originally posted by simplepretty:
I asked a Swedish woman how it is supposed to be pronounced and she sais "Schursten" actually, without even the K sound . . .

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Same here! I was also told that was the correct pronounciation. I will have to ask my pen-pal in Norway to say it for me.

[tommiles001]

Kirsten is pronounced KERSTahN - K as in "key (K.IY)" ; ER as in "hurt (HH.ER.T)" ; S as in "sea (S.IY)" ; T as in "tea (T.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"

Hear the mp3 pronunciation at this page: http://www.babynamespedia.com/meaning/Kirsten/f

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