I learned how interesting Czech pronunciation can be when I had a roommate in college from Czechoslovakia named Jiri. His name is pronounced “Yishzi”.
On Oct 24, 2020, at 12:31 PM, Nelson Moyer <npmoyer@hotmail.com> wrote:
After the 2008 flood, the museum building was moved to higher ground. Considering the fact that the building was large and brick, it was quite an engineering feat.
Nelson Moyer
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When ever I see the name Dvorak I always want to say the last syllable as 'AK" cause that's what it looks like in English. But my late Czech Wife always said
DvorSHAK. I I always wondered why she said it that way, but now I know. The Czech language puts some combinations of letters together and they are pronounced differently than we would in English. I heard one old guy say 'You've gotta have a "SLAVEK TOUNG"
and that is certainly correct.
We visited the Czech Museum at Cedar Rapids a few years before the first flood destroyed it, but i understand that it's back in business now.
CedarRapids is still a "hot bed" of Czech Culture and a good Czech restaurant or two.
Pete
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A lot of Czechs settled in Eastern Iowa with large concentrations between Spillville and Cedar Rapids. Cedar Rapids has a section called Czech Village and very nice
Czech museum if you’re ever in Eastern Iowa. I’ve been to Spillville, a quaint town now, but little that’s obviously Czech except the surnames.
There was also a Czech population in Yukon, OK just West of Oklahoma City near El Reno, which was a CRI&P division point with a large shop complex. Like the Irish,
Germans, and others, maybe Czechs built some of the railroads. A have a railroad buddy here in Iowa City whose ancestors fled Germany to avoid constant wars. They built the Creston Sub on the CB&Q, and as soon as they saved enough money, they bought land and
started farming. That’s probably a common history for many European immigrants.
My iPhone’s spellcheck changed Antonin to Antonio and I didn’t catch it. It now knows better.
I spent some time last night looking up Spillville, IA, where Dvorak spent time in the United States, seeing if it was, perchance, in Q territory. Alas, it is in
Northeast Iowa. It is currently not served by rail, although nearby Calmar apparently was served by the Milwaukee Road.
His Czech name is Antonin, not Antonio, though Antonio is the Italian variant.
Speaking of famous Czechs, one of my favorite composers, Antonio Dvorak, was a railfan.
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