Kephart, how to pronounce his name...

I have always pronounced it Kep - hart but I have no reason or justification for doing so

 

Same, never even occurred to me to wonder about tbh

 

KB, where did you get the ’f’ from ?

Name pronounciations vary depending where the person lives, not where the name comes from.
An originally German family name in Alsace is pronounced the French way these day!

As he was American, pronounce it the way they do in America!
( but, you doing the course in France, they might not understand you as they do ot pronounce the ’h’?


’Orace Kepar’ would be my guess?

 

a PH is sounded as an F in English, Janne

I wonder if the 'phart' is silent Then you could just call it a Kep, and appear cool and knowing

Anyhow, seems it is a Polish/Czech (Silesian) name and old. Variations on the spelling suggest it could be pronounced Kep-hart

Gebhardt, Gebhard, Gebheart, Gebhart, Gephard, Gephardt, Gephart, Gebheard, Gebbard, Gebbart, Gebbardt, Gabhart

But the pronunciation of consonants like b, p, ph, f, v, w are all pretty close and slippery. So, the Gebbard spellings might suggest a single sound, bb, that might slip around a bit, even being pronounced as a v. (cf Siobhan). So, there might be something to a Keffart pronunciation.

Fact that it is prononced Kep-hart in the US now, doesn't mean that it was in the late C19th among central European emigrants. So, no answer, but at least some suggestion as to why it might be tricky

I am making this up, though

 

So did I!

It is not a Czech name though. Not in any spellings or pronounciations.
Could be in a future a long time ago though....

 

never had a problem saying Horace, i pronounce it like Horr as in Horror, and is as in hiss.
Kephart is usually pronounced
Kep (as in Kept)....and Heart.

 

You are right that most English words with ph in them are sounded like an "F"........pharmacy, philanthropic, etc, etc ..................but as in life itself there are always exceptions such as............uphold, saphead, peephole.........and even phthalate where the ph is silent,.this is what makes languages interesting...................

 

Todays young seems to communicate best with faked photos, symbols and unreadable abbrevations.
LOL.


(sorry, you will not have the pleasure of seeing me filtered through a computer programme so I look like a mix between Dolph Lungren and Ron Jeremy.......)

 

The Family names did not change much though.
Germans and Austrians with a Slavic (Polish or Czech) last name are very common, and vice versa.
Kephart is not a Slavic.
I suspect the older spelling could be Kephardt.

the interesting bit with his knife is how similar to a Nesmuk knife it is.
One would almost think their mothers had the same kitchen knife!

 

Or just wait for someone else to say it first

You aint gotta be right, just the same wrong as everyone else lol

 

Just make a machete instead, problem solved, even the French will know a machete, and if it doesn't turn out well, call it a Kephart..........but say it quietly so no-one hears you......................................

 

So how do we pronounce “machete?”

 

Mach (like in the airspeed) + ET (like the movie alien).

 

To be fair mammal cant really be mispronounced as fish lol

Besides......my suggestion works for Wikipedia

 

When does a loan word gain perminant ownership status?
Machete is in the dictionary.
Half a million words, how many originated in this country

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