Re: ING Direct - No love for Opera :(

Well, I still use ING Direct checking because they don't charge for  
overdrafts on the plastic, and it's only a relatively minor hassle  
entering my security info each time I log on; but I transferred almost all  
my savings to Amexco.  Of course, with any bank, you need to check those  
interest rates frequently because they don't notify you when they reduce  
them.

On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:41:50 -0700, Harry Lake <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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