I pronounced it 'TAAH-feh' before I heard it spoken.
Is okay; if we still lived in Austria, that would probably be correct. In Ireland, I found that people pronounced it "Taff," and anybody who speaks Welsh is free to tell me what the original pronunciation would have been. This is what happens when a name takes up traveling.
My maiden name was Van Metre-Oestman, much to the consternation of everyone who ever tried to spell or pronounce it.
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Date: 2006-04-21 08:11 pm (UTC)Is okay; if we still lived in Austria, that would probably be correct. In Ireland, I found that people pronounced it "Taff," and anybody who speaks Welsh is free to tell me what the original pronunciation would have been. This is what happens when a name takes up traveling.
My maiden name was Van Metre-Oestman, much to the consternation of everyone who ever tried to spell or pronounce it.
. . . That's awesome.