Name Controversy

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 41, 24 April 1930, Page 9

Name Controversy

N reference to the interesting statements which recently appeared in your columns regarding the pronunciation of the American place-name NSchenectady. I would like to remark that I have been a close’ student of the language of that country through the agency of K.D.K.A., Pittsburg, for the last four or five years, and have made the interesting discovery that the first portion of the name of their great Eastern Metropolis is pronounced either "Noo" or ‘Nu" in(lifferently, but pending the introduction of a couple of new letters into the old Roman alphabet, I find myself too diffident to attempt even the phonetic spelling of the name in its entirety.-

G.

Fraser

(Ohura).