pronunciation of Behar

iwasaki

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Sep 1, 2008, 11:18:22 AM9/1/08

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How is the family name of Howard Behar pronounced?
"Bear"? "Bee-har"?

(He is the author of _It's Not About The Coffee_ and the
former president of Starbucks Coffee Company International.)

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Nobuko Iwasaki

R H Draney

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Sep 1, 2008, 12:19:27 PM9/1/08

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iwasaki filted:

If it's the same family as Joy Behar, a panelist on "The View", it's
"BAY-har"....r

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Evelyn Wood just looks at the pictures.

Prai Jei

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Sep 1, 2008, 1:31:58 PM9/1/08

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R H Draney set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time
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> iwasaki filted:
>>
>>How is the family name of Howard Behar pronounced?
>>"Bear"? "Bee-har"?
>>
>>(He is the author of _It's Not About The Coffee_ and the
>>former president of Starbucks Coffee Company International.)
>
> If it's the same family as Joy Behar, a panelist on "The View", it's
> "BAY-har"....r

Similarly how about the pronunciation of Maesbrook? On the BBC they say
"May's brook" but Welshmen would interpret the name as a hybrid
Welsh/English name (of which there are several in Herefordshire and
Shropshire - so close to civilisation you see) and so pronounce the name
(whose first element means "meadow" in Welsh) as "mice brook".
--
ξ:) Proud to be curly

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Don Phillipson

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Sep 1, 2008, 1:13:51 PM9/1/08

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"iwasaki" <pianofo...@mtg.biglobe.ne.jp> wrote in message
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The only answer is to ask someone who bears the name.
The standard convention (from England) is that the
"correct" pronunciationn of a proper name is whatever
its bearer prefers. Thus the name Behar may be
correctly pronounced in two or more different ways
by different people called Behar. But you are right that
there is only one correct way to pronounce the name
of this particular coffee magnate.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

James Silverton

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Sep 1, 2008, 2:28:13 PM9/1/08

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Don wrote on Mon, 1 Sep 2008 13:13:51 -0400:

>> How is the family name of Howard Behar pronounced?
>> "Bear"? "Bee-har"?
>>
>> (He is the author of _It's Not About The Coffee_ and the
>> former president of Starbucks Coffee Company International.)

> The only answer is to ask someone who bears the name.
> The standard convention (from England) is that the
> "correct" pronunciationn of a proper name is whatever
> its bearer prefers. Thus the name Behar may be
> correctly pronounced in two or more different ways
> by different people called Behar. But you are right that
> there is only one correct way to pronounce the name
> of this particular coffee magnate.

I fully agree with you on "correct" pronunciation. Without other
information, my current verbalization would be as in the Indian state of
Bihar: /b@hA/. Have I got that right in ASCII IPA since the A is
supposed to respresent the sound in father?

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

Django Cat

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Sep 2, 2008, 3:02:13 AM9/2/08

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> iwasaki wrote

>How is the family name of Howard Behar pronounced? "Bear"? "Bee-har"?
>(He is the author of _It's Not About The Coffee_ and the former president of
>Starbucks Coffee Company International.)
>

Presumably the title follows on from Lance Armstrong's 'It's not about the
Bike'.

Are we to expect a run of 'It's not about the...' titles? AUEr's appropriate
suggestions for titles would be most welcome...

DC