[Dixielandjazz] Pronunciation

[David Richoux]

The name Schroeder is not unfamiliar to most people in the world - he  
was a major character in the "Peanuts" comic strip for about 50 years...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schroeder_(Peanuts)


Dave Richoux

On Sep 8, 2008, at 4:19 PM, Hal Vickery wrote:

> Chicago jazz DJ Dick Buckley always used to have fun with  
> Schroeder's name.  Most Americans would pronounce the oe (actually  
> o with an umlaut in German) as a long o like shroder (rhymes with  
> loader) or a long a like shrader (rhymes with trader - in fact  
> there was a car dealer in Peotone, IL who called himself Trader  
> Schroeder (rhyming, although I used to have fun myself calling him  
> "trader shroder").
>
> At any rate, Buckley said that when he heard Schroeder pronounce  
> his name, it came out sounding like shroider.  So whenever he'd  
> play a record on which Gene Schoeder appeared he would say, "Gene  
> Shroder-Shrader-Shroider on piano."
>
> I took a couple of years of high school German over forty years  
> ago, but I generally pronounce it with a long o and not the  
> umlauted o because everybody would just say, "Huh?"
>
> Hal Vickery
>
> Hal Vickery
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>   From: Gerard Bielderman<mailto:gerard.bielderman at tiscali.nl>
>   To: Hal Vickery<mailto:hvickery_80 at msn.com>
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>   I wonder how Americans pronounce the surname of Eddie Condon  
> pianist Gene
>   Schroeder.
>   I expect to get different pronunciations!!
>
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