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Name Pronunciation Notability Notes Respelling IPA; Alicia Silverstone: ə-lee-SEE-ə / ə l i ˈ s iː. ə / American actor According to her; mainly regular outside North America Anna Faris: like Ana / ˈ ɑː n ə / American actor and comedian Pronunciation mainly regular outside the US and Canada Chone Figgins: like Shawn / ˈ ʃ ɔː n ...
René Vidal (politician) (1931–2012), Bolivian politician; René Vidal (born 1974), Chilean computer scientist; Ricardo Vidal (1931–2017), Filipino cardinal-priest and archbishop; Rocío Vidal (born 1989), Spanish cartoonist and illustrator; Walpole Vidal (1853–1914), English footballer; Silvino Vidal (1850–1937), Portuguese writer
Anglicisation of non-English-language names was common for immigrants, or even visitors, to English-speaking countries. An example is the German composer Johann Christian Bach, the "London Bach", who was known as "John Bach" after emigrating to England.
As a German surname, Eng is a variant spelling of Enge, a topographic surname for a person who lived in a valley or other such narrow place, from German eng 'narrow'. [ 9 ] The Norwegian and Swedish surname Eng originated as an ornamental surname from Old Norse eng and Swedish äng 'meadow'.
Arturo Erasmo Vidal Pardo (Spanish pronunciation: [aɾˈtuɾo eˈɾasmo βiˈðal ˈpaɾðo]; [a] born 22 May 1987) is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Chilean Primera División club Colo-Colo and the Chile national team. [4]
van (Dutch pronunciation: ⓘ) is a very common prefix in Dutch language surnames, where it is known as a tussenvoegsel. In those cases it nearly always refers to a certain, often quite distant, ancestor's place of origin or residence; for example, Ludwig van Beethoven "from Beethoven" (maybe Bettenhoven ) [ 1 ] [ better source needed ] and ...
In an English-speaking environment, Spanish-named people sometimes hyphenate their surnames to avoid Anglophone confusion or to fill in forms with only one space provided for the last name: [14] for example, U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is of Puerto Rican heritage, is named "Ocasio-Cortez" because her parents' surnames are ...
The sound now spelled with a y or z is historically a lenited slender / ɡ /, which in Gaelic is pronounced [j] (like English y ). The English/ Scots form of the name was originally spelled with a yogh ( ȝ ) as Dalȝiel ; this was later replaced with either a z , the letter of the modern alphabet which most looks like yogh, or a y , which more ...