Comment by int_19h
4 days ago
The "weird" part about Hungarian names and words for English speakers is that "y" is a modifier letter in most cases, not a sound in and of itself. So e.g. "Nagy" is pronounced closer to something like "Nahj".
4 days ago
The "weird" part about Hungarian names and words for English speakers is that "y" is a modifier letter in most cases, not a sound in and of itself. So e.g. "Nagy" is pronounced closer to something like "Nahj".
They said:
> Except when it comes to names when it gets a bit random!
The letters "gy", "ty", and "ly" are not exclusive to names, nor are they significantly more common in names.
It's not that I disagree people would struggle with these, just that it's not unique to names, so it couldn't have been what they were referring to there.
My implicit point was that this:
> The only weird ones I can think of are the ones that end in -y. For example, Görgey. They're meant to be -i endings.
is not actually surprising to an English speaker.