pronunciation, names

names

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Chinua Achebe (chin-oo-ah ah-chay-bae)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (chim-ah-man-da nnnn-go-zeh ah-dee-che)

Augustine of Hippo (aw-gus-tin)

Donald/Frederick Barthelme (barth-uhl-me)

Karl Barth (bart)

Roland Barthes (bart)

Walter Benjamin (ben-yameen)

Bishop Berkeley (barkley)

Louis De Broglie (duh broy)

Menzies Campbell (ming-iss)

Thomas Carew (carey)

Vija Celmins (vee-yah tell-midge)

Michael Chabon (shay-bonn)

J.C. Chandor (shann-door)

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (me-high cheek-sent-me-high)

Emil Cioran (chore-ahn)

Ta-Nehisi Coates (tah-nuh-hah-see)

Alexander/Andrew/Patrick Cockburn (coburn)

Paulo Coelho (~pow-lu kuh-whey.l-you.)*

J.M. Coetzee (~koot-zee-uh)

William Cowper (cooper)

Alfonso/Jonás/Carlo Cuarón (al-fone-so/ho-nas kwah-roan)

Don Juan, Byron character (jew-un)

W.E.B. DuBois (duh-boyz)

Andre Dubus (duh-byoose)

Chiwetel Ejiofor (choo-we-tell edge-ee-oh-for)

Leonhard Euler (oiler)

Ralph/Ranulph/Sophie/Joseph/Magnus/Martha Fiennes (rayf finezzzzzzzzzzzzz)

Gustave Flaubert (flow-bear)

Michel Foucault (foh-coe)

André Gide (zheed)

Houston Street, Manhattan (house-ton)

H.R. Giger (ghee-guh)

Jacques, Shakespeare character (jay-kwiss)

Johann Gottlieb Fichte (feesh-tuh)

Philip Gourevitch (guh-ray-vitch)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (~goo-tuh/ger-tuh)

Vaclav Havel (vat-slav hah-vell)

Joris-Karl Huysmans (zhour-ris karl weese-moss)**

John Maynard Keynes (kanes)

Krzysztof Kieślowski (kreesh-toff keesh-loff-skee)

Paul Klee (powell clay)

Q’orianka/Xihuaru Kilcher (core-i-an-ka/see-wahr-oo)

Saul Kripke (krip-key)

Jonathan Lethem (leeth-um)

Jared Leto (let-oh)

Magdalen College, Oxford (mawd-lin)

Somerset Maugham (mawm)

Czesław Miłosz (chess-waff me-woahsh)

Joan Miró (zhwamn mi-roh)

Robert Musil (moo-zeal/moo-seal)

Nacogdoches, Texas (nack-uh-dough-chis)

Natchitoches, Louisiana (nack-uh-tush)

Anaïs Nin (ah-nayh-ees ninn)

Lupita Nyong’o (~nnnnnyong-oh)

Adepero Oduye (add-uh-pair-oh oh-doo-yay)

David Oyelowo (oh-yell-uh-whoah)

Chuck Palahniuk (pahl-uh-nik)

Wolfgang Pauli (pow-lee)

Samuel Pepys (peeps)

Jodi Picoult (pee-coe)

Plotinus (ploh-tine-us)

Anthony Powell (po-uhl)

John Cowper Powys (cooper poh-iss)

Marcel Proust (proost)

Ayn Rand (well-fare recipient)

Theodore Roethke (ret-key)

Ed Ruscha (roo-shay)

Jon Scieszka (sheh-shka)

Schlumberger (slumber-zhay)

W.G. Sebald (zay-bald)

William Smellie (smiley)

Wisława Szymborska (vee-swa-va shim-bor-ska)

Wayne Thiebaud (tee-bo)

Colm Tóibín (~column toh-been)

Jones Very (jonas veery)

Ayelet Waldman (eye-yell-it)

Quvenzhané Wallis (kwuh-ven-zhuh-nay)

Robert Walser (valzer)

Evelyn St. John Waugh (eve-linn sin-jun wahh)

Simone Weil (vay)

Michel Houllebecq (he doesn’t care)

Rogier van der Weyden (ro-khee-ur von dur vay-dun)

Ludwig Wittgenstein (vittgenshtain/vittgenshtein)

David Wojnarowicz (woy-nar-oh-vitz)

Joseph Wright of Derby (right of dahr-bee)

William Butler Yeats (yates)

Slavoj Žižek (slah-voi zhee-zhek)

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*Portuguese has a far more complicated phonetics than English & so this one is especially approximate

**the last syllable doesn’t have an English equivalent but rhymes with the French pronunciation of Jean’s