Trying to interpret the Hungarian IPA on his Wiki page I've ended up with something like "air-dursh".
Google Translate kind of confirms this, but there is no audible "r" sound.
Posted May 26, 2011, 4:54 AM UTC · edited
For future reference, Forvo is a great reference for pronunciations of foreign words and names as recorded by native speakers.
Here's their entry on Erdős.
Oh that's cool.
Everyone I know pronounces it roughly like "air-dush" or "air-dish".
The Google Translate recording is spot on. There is an audible "r", but it's the not the same "r" sound as in the English language. It's sort of a rolling "r".
This youtube video starts with these words in hungarian:
"Az Erdős Pál matematikai..."
He talks quite fast, but maybe you can hear the hungarian pronunciation of "Erdős".
Bingo! Thanks.
It's pronounced as urr-dish (where 'urr' rhymes with her, and dish is dish)
I thought it was air-doe-sh.
Nope. Rhlewis has got it:
air-dish
oe in german, that is
It's between "air-dursh" and "air-dush." So, pronounce it like "air-dursh" but say the "ur" part like the "oo" in good.
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Ur-dvsk
air-dish
hence Erdos=frisbee.
Sylvia Nasar actually spell it something like this in her biography of Nash, or should I say Gnash.
TIL.