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To: mylife
As marketing director Ryan Reiss (yes, that’s actually his name; yes, it’s pronounced “Reese”) put it,

A name with the spelling "Reiss" should properly be pronounced as "Rice".

2 posted on 12/28/2020 9:53:12 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Sans-Culotte
A name with the spelling "Reiss" should properly be pronounced as "Rice".

Many immigrants adopted the pronunciation used by the official they met on entering the country.

My wife has a Dutch last name that is pronounced three or four different ways depending on the branch of tree.
4 posted on 12/28/2020 9:56:55 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Sans-Culotte
A name with the spelling "Reiss" should properly be pronounced as "Rice".

Many immigrants adopted the pronunciation used by the official they met on entering the country.

My wife has a Dutch last name that is pronounced three or four different ways depending on the branch of tree.
5 posted on 12/28/2020 9:56:55 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Sans-Culotte

I hear lot’s of retarded pronunciations of names how he hell is Mueller “muller”? Beuller...


7 posted on 12/28/2020 9:57:57 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Sans-Culotte

What if his name was Moore Reiss?
You know, like in that song by Steve Miller.


10 posted on 12/28/2020 10:00:56 AM PST by lee martell
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To: Sans-Culotte

Any good American Americanizes pronunciation.


13 posted on 12/28/2020 10:02:21 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Sans-Culotte

How do you pronounce Reich, as in Robert?


17 posted on 12/28/2020 10:20:49 AM PST by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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