Schaap

Posted on September 11, 2003 @ 10:21 in General

Google sent someone to this site who was asking for the

meaning of the Dutch name "Schaap"

"Schaap" means "sheep" (singular) in English.

As for pronunciation, the "sch" sound is very difficult to pronounce for most foreigners, as a fairly hard G (as in "grok") immediately follows a sharp S (as in "sharp"), while the double "aa" is long ("aah"), concluded with a shortish P (as in the English "chap").

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  1. No doubt there are many english speakers who, upon first seeing the word "schaap", would pronounce it "scape". If they were to speak your name, it would come out as "Frank Scape" or "Frankscape". Like landscape, or cityscape, or mindscape.... I suppose a "frankscape" would be a representation of what it is like to be *you*: a snapshot of frank-ness.

    Posted by Martin on September 11, 2003 @ 13:50

  2. Many English speakers actually manage something like "Shaahp" which I think sounds nicer than "Scape."

    I like "frankscape" very much though :-)

    Posted by Frank on September 11, 2003 @ 17:03

  3. Hmm... seeing it like that, makes me realize you could also read that as "Frank's Cape," which would be a nice place to build a house I guess, unless that makes you see me flying around like Superman, with a cape on my shoulders :-)

    Posted by Frank on September 11, 2003 @ 17:05

  4. Do you mean to say that your name SHOULD be pronounced Sh-g-ah-p? And I thought I was doing so well with Shaahp... ;)

    Posted by Jill on September 12, 2003 @ 09:45

  5. Hey Jill, make it "Ss-g-h-aah-p" and you're there :)

    Posted by Frank on September 18, 2003 @ 15:39

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