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From: Andrew Smith <andrew@ling.ed.ac.uk>
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As far as I know, when the Hungarians reformed their spelling system
sometime last century, names were exempted, and so are still spelt using
the old rules.

So the name Ra'koczi stayed as it is, but czukor (sugar) became cukor.
Likewise Eo"tvo"s and Eszterha'zy.

Andrew Smith
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On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, John Cowan wrote:

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> Hey, thanks.  I've been pronouncing it with final palatalized "z" all
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