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My surname . . . As it turns out my family were never from Deutschland. And
the word pronounced “jer mun” is not in
the Deutsche language. So, where did this come from?
It probably referred to the location of the family; most
likely the edge of a lake where a river flowed into it, perhaps? The proper pronunciation is how any native Deutsche
speaker would pronounce it: ˈ gyehr·muhn Sounds something like: “air done” The “g” is followed by a slight
“y” sound, like the “j” in fjord. The nation in north central Europe is Deutschland and the
people there are Deutsche who speak Deutsche. There is no place called germany; there is no people called germans
and there is no language called german. Listen to their national anthem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2IaFaJrmno The word “german”
does not appear anywhere. Got it? Now go straighten out the world for all the Deutschlanders . . . what’s that song again? “Deutschland Uber Alles” According to my DNA, I am about 2/3 Norwegian. The rest is
from the British Isles, Holland (now known as The Netherlands) and Belgium. But why do we call them GERMANS? Some Roman emperor decided to call the people who lived
north and east of the Rhein “germania”,
because there were quite a warlike people. And the ‘g’ was not
pronounced like a ‘J’. Incidentally, my son has lived in Bavaria for the last 5
years and the locals always pronounce his name correctly; ˈ gyehr·muhn. |
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According to my DNA, I am about 2/3 Norwegian. The rest is from the British Isles, The Baltics, Holland (now known as The Netherlands) and Belgium. |
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