Re: ING Direct - No love for Opera :(
Harry Lake <[email protected]> Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:41:50 +0200
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At 20:57 19-7-2010 CEST, you wrote:
>_
>PS, Jack: if even Opera premium support could not help
>troubleshoot/fix this issue, I am kind of losing hope anyone will be
>able to :( I welcome your bank's name even more, then.
Of course, ING have been at pains to make clear that the name should
be pronounced Eye - Enn - Gee, or Ee - Enn - Ghay in Dutch. (gh as in
Van Gogh - oh, never mind! :-)
(Actually, if you're interested, it's like ch in Scottish 'loch' or
gh as in Irish 'lough'. In Dutch, the letter G is pronounced the same
way as gh, so that Vincent van Gogh's name, and indeed that of anyone
else with that surname, e.g. the murdered film maker Theo van Gogh (I
myself knew someone called van Gogh), is pronounced (using 'ch' as in
loch) as 'choch'. It's sort of half-way between h as in 'hot' and c
as in 'cot'. My wife's name was Gemma and my parents learnt (more or
less) to pronounce it by simply adding an H to Emma and trying to
make it sound a bit guttural (this was in the very early 1970s, long,
long before Gemma ('Jemma', sometimes spelt that way) had even been
heard of in the UK - indeed, I like to think it was she who
introduced the name there!). (In case anyone's wondering - I doubt it
- the name Gemma (in Holland, anyway) comes from the RC Saint Gemma Galgani.)
Sorry about all that. It won't happen again (till the next time).
Harry
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<font size=3>At 20:57 19-7-2010 CEST, you wrote:<br>
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PS, Jack: if even Opera premium support could not help troubleshoot/fix
this issue, I am kind of losing hope anyone will be able to :( I welcome
your bank's name even more, then.</blockquote><br><br>
</font>Of course, ING have been at pains to make clear that the name
should be pronounced Eye - Enn - Gee, or Ee - Enn - Ghay in Dutch. (gh as
in Van Gogh - oh, never mind! :-)<br><br>
(Actually, if you're interested, it's like ch in Scottish 'loch' or gh as
in Irish 'lough'. In Dutch, the letter G is pronounced the same way as
gh, so that Vincent van Gogh's name, and indeed that of anyone else with
that surname, e.g. the murdered film maker Theo van Gogh (I myself knew
someone called van Gogh), is pronounced (using 'ch' as in loch) as
'choch'. It's sort of half-way between h as in 'hot' and c as in 'cot'.
My wife's name was Gemma and my parents learnt (more or less) to
pronounce it by simply adding an H to Emma and trying to make it sound a
bit guttural (this was in the very early 1970s, long, long before Gemma
('Jemma', sometimes spelt that way) had even been heard of in the UK -
indeed, I like to think it was she who introduced the name there!). (In
case anyone's wondering - I doubt it - the name Gemma (in Holland,
anyway) comes from the RC Saint Gemma Galgani.)<br><br>
Sorry about all that. It won't happen again (till the next
time).<br><br>
Harry<br>
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