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How would you pronounce Jozef?

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Bellaholland · 18/03/2012 13:33

How would you pronounce Jozef? As Joseph or Yo-seph?

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mathanxiety · 23/03/2012 22:54

I think people would see the continental spelling and assume the J was pronounced as a Y.

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Bellaholland · 23/03/2012 12:41

I just wanted to know how people in uk say it! My husband is Dutch we live in holland and here it is yo-sef. Just curious if my family and friends would do that too. In holland Joseph is also yo-seph.

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FondleWithCare · 22/03/2012 17:00

I've been to Bratislava, it's really nice there, I'll be going to one of the smaller towns this summer. I haven't been to Hungary yet though.

mathanxiety · 22/03/2012 15:32

The Polish Jozef would have an accent on the o, I think.

I would pronounce it Yo-zef like the Czech pronunciation here

MirandaGoshawk · 22/03/2012 15:15

Yo-zef

MagdaMagyarMadam · 22/03/2012 15:13

FWC - practically neighbours then! My family live about 1 hour from Bratislava (and Vienna) in the north west of Hungary.

The region is lovely - have you been there?

(apologies for hijack)

FondleWithCare · 22/03/2012 10:27

I thought I had it right. My partner is Slovakian and I'm trying to learn the language, one of the first pages has a list of nationalities but I wasn't sure if Magyar would mean something different in another language.

MagdaMagyarMadam · 22/03/2012 09:26

Fondle With Care - yes, well part, on my fathers side.

winnybella · 21/03/2012 00:12

It's a Polish name and so I would spell it 'Yoo-zef'', so an 'oo' sound, not 'o'.

BackforGood · 21/03/2012 00:12

Yoze (to rhyme with hose) - ev

MmeLindor. · 21/03/2012 00:10

It is not a yoo-neek spelling.

I would assume that the person is from mainland Europe (Eastern Europe actually) and pronounce it Yo-zef.

Is it a family name?

FondleWithCare · 21/03/2012 00:09

magda are you Hungarian?

I understand what you mean and my name is Siobhan, I would hate anybody trying to pronounce it phonetically. Jozef is an Eastern European name and the letter J is pronounced as a Y.

FondleWithCare · 21/03/2012 00:06

It's my FIL's name Yo-zef.

MagdaMagyarMadam · 20/03/2012 17:55

My RL name has the same first letter and no... it is not a yoo-neek spelling. I insist that is it pronounced properly otherwise it just sounds silly trying to anglicise it.

Like asking a Siobahn to have her name pronounced as "see-oh-ban".

Am I making sense??? Confused

HappyCamel · 20/03/2012 17:20

Yozsef

FilterCoffee · 20/03/2012 17:19

Joseph

OriginalJamie · 20/03/2012 16:18

Yosef, although a lot of people would call him Josef

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Happenstance · 20/03/2012 14:16

Yo-zeph here

Greythorne · 20/03/2012 14:16

Joseph

abbypumpkin · 20/03/2012 14:02

I would assume it was a yoo-neek spelling of Joseph. Having said that if I was told it was 'yo-zef' I wouldn't be suprised and would assume it was hispanic.

Bucharest · 18/03/2012 16:00

The two I know, both with Eastern European fathers, call themselves Joseph.

missmiss · 18/03/2012 15:58

Yozef

DustyDen · 18/03/2012 15:41

Yo-zef. That's just because I know a Josef and that's how his family pronounce it.

shineypenny · 18/03/2012 14:52

Yo-zef

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