Dutch language--Pronunciation

In answer to the frequent question of how to pronounce the name “Roosevelt,” the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal presents, for the third time, two letters sent to the New York Sun in 1903 which give a definite answer on the topic. The first, from Richard E. Mayne, briefly presents the question and argues that Roosevelt’s name should be pronounced with only two syllables. The second, from Theodore Roosevelt’s uncle, Robert B. Roosevelt, explains in a definite manner how the family name should be pronounced with three syllables, citing its Dutch heritage. A photograph of Robert B. Roosevelt appears on the first page of the article.

This article, minus the photograph, first appeared in the Fall, 1983, issue of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, and it was published for a second time, with the photograph, in the Summer 1988 issue.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

This third installment of “The Roosevelt Family in America: A Genealogy” includes part three of the genealogy as well as an introductory note explaining its publication order and instructions on how to navigate its various parts. An index to all three parts of the genealogy appears at the end of this issue. Part two of the genealogy is labeled as an appendix on “Jacob Rosevelt and His Descendants” and provides a history of the descendants of Jacob Rosevelt, an eighteenth-century German immigrant and includes eighty-one entries, featuring brief biographical portraits of each entrant, along with their birth and death dates, and a listing of their children.

Part two of the genealogy also includes in this order: a text box on “Pronunciation of Roosevelt”; a full page photograph of Henry L. Roosevelt; a text box with a listing of the officers of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA); a drawing of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt by John Singer Sargent; a photograph of Ethel Roosevelt Derby; a text box with a history of the TRA; and a photograph of Belle Roosevelt, wife of Kermit Roosevelt, with three of their children.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1990

In answer to the frequent question of how to pronounce the name “Roosevelt,” the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal presents two letters sent to the New York Sun in 1903 which give a definite answer on the topic. The first, from Richard E. Mayne, briefly presents the question and argues that Roosevelt’s name should be pronounced with only two syllables. The second, from Theodore Roosevelt’s uncle, Robert B. Roosevelt, explains in a definite manner how the family name should be pronounced with three syllables, citing its Dutch heritage. A photograph of Robert B. Roosevelt appears on the first page of the article.

This article, minus the photograph, first appeared in the Fall, 1983, issue of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1988

In answer to the frequent question of how to pronounce the name “Roosevelt,” the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal presents two letters sent to the New York Sun in 1903 which give a definite answer on the topic. The first, from Richard E. Mayne, briefly presents the question and argues that Roosevelt’s name should be pronounced with only two syllables. The second, from Theodore Roosevelt’s uncle, Robert B. Roosevelt, explains in a definite manner how the family name should be pronounced, citing its Dutch heritage.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1983