PSA: Pronunciation of Rod Rosenstein's name

[OneGrassRoot]

NPR found a 2008 press conference in which Rod Rosenstein pronounced his name:

Rosen"STINE" not "STEEN"

https://www.npr.org/2017/05/12/528166353/is-it-steen-or-stine-how-to-pronounce-rod-rosensteins-name

[leftieNanner]

1. I was having trouble remembering this

even though Rachel ALWAYS pronounces it correctly. So I think of "Frankenstein" to remember how it's said. Of course, if you think of the old Gene Wilder movie Young Frankenstein, that might not help you!

Because it's annoying, you will usually hear Faux News pronounce it WRONG!

[OneGrassRoot]

2. LOL...exactly...

They even reference Young Frankenstein at the NPR link.

[SCantiGOP]

3. In almost all cases

“ie” or “ei” takes the pronunciation of the second letter.
Guess I accidentally paid attention in high school English one day.

[Igel]

8. In this case it's a German pronunciation.

The difficulty is that the German pronunciation wasn't preserved.

I have trouble pronouncing Czech surnames in a non-Czech manner. However, most of the Czech-Americans I know had ancestors who immigrated in the late 1800s and they've long since throughly Americanized their names' pronunciation.

Even Navratilova accepted and mirrored the Anglicization of her surname, losing the stress, intonation, vowel length, and even swapping out the palatal stop for an alveolar stop and the flapped r for that funny sound we Anglophones represent with <r>.

[SCantiGOP]

11. you lost me quickly there

Between High School and college I took two years each of Spanish, French and German.
German was by far the hardest.
Wish I had taken 6 years of one and could actually speak it. I can say I speak 4 languages if all you want is Hello, Thank You and 1-10.

[unblock]

4. Everyone gets "Einstein" right but don't notice a pattern

[Cha]

5. Thanks, OneGrassRoot.. I

don't have a tv so I don't hear his name pronounced.. I was saying "steen" to myself though.

And, I say "Mewler" but I did catch clips with pundits saying "Muller". I've heard that name pronounced both ways.

[OneGrassRoot]

6. You're welcome!

The people who know Mueller (coworkers) pronounce it “Muller’ so I go with that!

[tarheelsunc]

7. Follow up question...

Is it ROZenstein or ROSEenstein?

[OneGrassRoot]

9. ROSE

[Adrahil]

10. It's pronounced....