Re: [CR]Alex Singer video with Ernest Csuka

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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:31:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Alex Singer video with Ernest Csuka
To: Classic Rendezvous Mailing List <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, Dirk Feeken <dirk.feeken@t-online.de>
In-Reply-To: <C52406A5.B7B9%dirk.feeken@t-online.de>


Interesting.  He says SanJUR, pronouncing the r on the end.  So presumi ng Csuska's pronunciation is that used by the family in general, they use n either the English pronunciation, nor the French pronunciation, which would be SanJAY, since one does not pronounce an r on the end of a French word.   I believe Alex Singer was a Hungarian Jew, so maybe that is the way the y pronounced the name when the family was in Hungary.  I wonder if some o f the family is still in Hungary, or if they were all killed or driven out by the Nazi-allied WWII government there.

Regards,

Jerry Moos
Big Spring, Texas, USA


--- On Tue, 10/21/08, Dirk Feeken wrote:


From: Dirk Feeken <dirk.feeken@t-online.de> Subject: [CR]Alex Singer video with Ernest Csuka To: "Classic Rendezvous Mailing List" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 3:22 PM

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20i0k_alex-singer_creation

It's in french but it shows Ernest Csuka, the shop and above all it clarifies the long debated question how to pronounce "Singer" (at 1:01 min).

Dirk
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Dirk Feeken
Heidelberg
Germany