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From: Wolfgang Berndorfer
Date: May 3, 2019 12:12PM

Hi Jeff,
I don’t know of any online resources about how proper names are pronounced
or should be pronounced. How they are pronounced by a speech engine, you can
test with a screen reader.
But: How they should be pronounced, is my question. And technically that
means, when should a proper name get a lang-attribute, if it’s not a proper
name of the default language.
You mentioned an older guide for newspapers. Note, that my issue is about
acoustic representation of proper names.
Did this help?
Wolfgang 

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Hello Wolfgang,
Are there any online resources for identifying how proper names are
pronounced? Content developers are bound to encounter names where they do
not know what language to use.
Years ago, I helped maintain a newspaper style guide that included some
pronunciation rules. I think this was done to help reporters be informed
when dealing with the public. We did not give this guide out.
Jeff Gutsell