Juerdby Juerd (Abbot)
|on Dec 15, 2001 at 23:44 UTC||Need Help??|
$juerd = Monk->new( name => 'Juerd Waalboer', nicknames => [ qw/Juerd Juerdje Whreq/ ], age => 28, # Please remind me to update this if you're reading this after 2012-06-10 :) education => undef, homepage => URI->new('http://juerd.nl/'), email => Mail::Address->new('Juerd', 'juerd' . '@' . 'juerd.nl'), languages => [ qw/Dutch English Esperanto/ ], );
People keep asking me how to pronounce "Juerd". Maybe putting the answer on my home node helps :)
J - like Y in You;
UE - a stretched uu-sound. The uu-sound is not found in english. It is like the german "ü" (as in "über") (note: that's NOT like "ou" in "you"). The "e", if pronounced, sounds like "uh" (like "e" in "the");
R - the R is very short, or not pronounced at all;
D - Like any d or t :).