AussieDJ said:

Michael V said:

Bubblecar said:

Approximately. More like AHN-dree-y. Although adding a little “y” sound on the end is unfamiliar to English speakers.

Interesting, thanks.

I’ve always liked to learn to pronounce people’s names the way they would like them pronounced.

When I was growing up, my father was a migrant English teacher. We had lots of visitors who spoke other languages, so I developed the habit of asking, trying, asking again, trying again until I got the pronunciation right.

And that, in a way, is how I got my nickname. A teacher at a bayside high school in Melbourne who, not having seen many or any eastern European surnames managed to mangle mine. The name, which I quite liked and shortened for brevity, stuck. Some friends still call me by that name, some 65 years since it was coined.

I used to ask patients how they liked their name pronounced and then write in pencil a sort of phonetic form on their record. Sometimes common Anglo names were pronounced differently from the norm, and many of the German surnames around here had altered pronunciation after the wars. So I never knew if I should use the German pronunciation or something else.