PronouncingNamesForEnglishSpeakers

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Hungarian Accents

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In hungarian names there are ö and ő, like Erdős, and the writen S is pronounced like the sh in bush... Although Scarlett Johansson did a good job with budapeSt.

Amn3s1a2018

adding some initial pt-br contributions

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This is a great project, Steve! Thanks for kickstarting it. I put together some initial Brazilian Portuguese tips trying to follow the same general pattern you started with, which you...

CarlosMendonca

Correct Chinese pronunciations on "Xu" and other minor improvements

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`Xu` does not sound the same as "shoe" because it's the simple form for `Xü`, where the `ü` is exactly like the German `ü` or French `u`. `Su` and `Hu`...

nerrons

Added Japanese names

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lauriegriffiths

I'm so excited that people are getting some use out of this. I'll break out a contributors section so everyone shares credit.

SteveMCarroll

For Chinese names: include Wade-Giles in addition to Pinyin

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The Chinese name you mentioned in the doc is primarily focused on Pinyin which is widely used in Mainland China. There's an alternative romanization system widely used in Hong Kong,...

yegle