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From: "jennifer fanale" <>
Subject: Re: [DK] Fyn or Funen/Bistrup or Bidstrup/Sindberg or Sinber
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 03:13:19 +1000
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HI, can some explain what the meaning of "KIOBMAND" means
It was written alongside my 4th Great Grandfathers surname.
Thanking you in advance, any info greatly appreciated.
Regards
Jennifer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sindberg" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 3:09 AM
Subject: Re: [DK] Fyn or Funen/Bistrup or Bidstrup/Sindberg or Sinber


> My surname, Sindberg, from Morsø (originally Sindbjerg) is pronounced
"SIN-BEAR"
> by most Danes I've met. Like some Brits the Danes drop final constantants
at
> times. All vowels are pronounced, so the "E" in my name is pronounced.
"BERG"
> and "BURG" are pronounced differently in Germany, where I lived for some
time,
> and also in Denmark. Most of the time I still pronounce my name as
"SIN-BRG"
> with no vowel sound in the 2nd syllable. But I'm trying to change that to
> "BERG". Germans pronounce my name as "ZINT-BERG" with a strong short "E"
in
> "BERG".
>
> Back to the "Y" pronunciation ---- Many Danish words and names end in "Y",
> especially "BY". "BY" is pronounced "BOO" which rhymes with "SHOE".
Towns like
> Karby are pronounced as "CAR-BOO" not "CAR-BEE".
>
> I heard Odense pronounced as "O-ENSE" with all vowels pronounced as
separate
> syllables.
>
> Have fun,
>
> Jim Sindberg
> Vancouver WA USA
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sue Schon" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 09:25
> Subject: Re: [DK] Fyn or Funen/Bistrup or Bidstrup?
>
>
> > Jim Sindberg wrote:
> > By the way the "d" is
> > > silent (or nearly silent) in many Danish words when not the first
letter
> > of a
> > > syllable.
> >
> > So, Jim, do we pronounce your name Sinberg? :-) I've been wondering
about
> > a town in Frederiksborg Amt, next to Birkerød, called Bistrup and
sometimes
> > Bidstrup. I've seen it both ways in the Birkerød Parish register (not to
be
> > confused with Blistrup, which is on the other side of the county). The
map
> > at the Danish census site spells it Bistrup. Which should it be? Do you
> > suppose that silent d caused it to be spelled both ways?
> >
> > Sue
> > In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia, USA
> > Researching:
> > --Schou, Barby, & Jonassen in Frederiksberg, København,
> > --Petersen, Nielsen, Fredericksen, Mogensen, & Hoier/Hojer in Birkerød,
> > Bistrup, & Blovstrød, Frederiksborg
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Sindberg" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 12:14 PM
> > Subject: Re: [DK] Fyn or Funen
> >
> >
> > > Listers,
> > >
> > > For those listers who might not know (and for those listers who assume
> > other
> > > listers do know) in Danish the letter "Y" is NOT pronounced as "Y" is
> > normally
> > > pronounced in the English language. For example: "Fyn" is pronounced
> > "foon" and
> > > rhymes with "spoon". "Jylland" is pronounced "U-lan". By the way the
"d"
> > is
> > > silent (or nearly silent) in many Danish words when not the first
letter
> > of a
> > > syllable.
> > >
> > > Jim Sindberg
> > > Vancouver WA USA
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Rockne Johnson" <>
> > > To: <>
> > > Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 07:11
> > > Subject: Re: [DK] Fyn or Funen
> > >
> > >
> > > > OK, Birgitte, the English may have a special name for the big island
> > lying
> > > > between Sjælland and Jylland but Americans sure don't. I think that
I
> > can
> > > > speak for most of the others when I say that we are perfectly happy
> > calling
> > > > it Fyn. After all, until we took up genealogy, we had never heard
of
> > it!
> > > >
> > > > Rock
> > > >
> > > > At 03:56 PM 6/23/02 +0200, Birgitte Weber wrote:
> > > > >I don't know....if you look it up in a dictionary it says that the
> > English
> > > > >name is Funen.......the German name is Fünen.
> > > > >
> > > > >:-) Birgitte
> > >
> > >
> > >
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