85.2%

[Gunnar]

Thanks for confirming that. I wish more people would become well-informed enough to realize that. I am sure that, in general, Democrats tend to understand this reality more than ultra-right Republicans, even though I realize that even Democrat leaders are also often influenced and beholden to wealthy oligarchs and donors to an unhealthy degree.

by the way, you misspelled my name again.

No, he didn't. It's Gunner. It's always been Gunner. I prounced your name as such for decades and I'm never wrong.

Then you have always pronounced it incorrectly. Sigh!

[Jersey Girl]

No, he didn't. It's Gunner. It's always been Gunner. I prounced your name as such for decades and I'm never wrong.

Then you have always pronounced it incorrectly. Sigh!

It's the German pronounciation.

[Gunnar]

Then you have always pronounced it incorrectly. Sigh!

It's the German pronounciation.

No, not even that!

[huckelberry]

It's the German pronounciation.

No, not even that!

Gunnar,
Just to help us out, which Scandinavian country are you and your name from? You of course realize you are pushing against English language sound habits but you certainly have the right to do so.

[Gunnar]

No, not even that!

Gunnar,
Just to help us out, which Scandinavian country are you and your name from? You of course realize you are pushing against English language sound habits but you certainly have the right to do so.

I thought most everyone here realized that I was born in Norway. I have mentioned that numerous times in my posts. I don't really take offense, though, when I hear people pronounce my name incorrectly. I got used to hearing it pronounced the way most Americans pronounce the word "gunner" with accent on the first syllable. I rarely bothered to correct them, unless they specifically asked me how I and my closest family and friends pronounce it. My parents decided to teach others to pronounce my name like "GunNawr", with accent on the second syllable, which is not precisely how they pronounced it when speaking in Norwegian, but close enough, and easier for English speakers to learn and pronounce than precisely how our Norwegian friends and family pronounce it.

In Danish, which I actually know better than the Norwegian dialect I was exposed to the first five years of my life (because in my late youth I lived 2 and 1/2 years in Denmark, during which time most of the Norwegian I remembered from early childhood was transformed into Danish), my name is pronounced with accent on the first syllable, rather than the second, and a slight bit closer to how normal English speakers would say it, than to how my parents, with their Stavanger dialect of Norwegian, pronounced it. It is my understanding that even within Norway, though, the way my name is pronounced varies somewhat from region to region. So, I don't take offence if others unknowingly say it differently than I regard as correct.

[huckelberry]

Gunnar,
Just to help us out, which Scandinavian country are you and your name from? You of course realize you are pushing against English language sound habits but you certainly have the right to do so.

I thought most everyone here realized that I was born in Norway. I have mentioned that numerous times in my posts. I don't really take offense, though, when I hear people pronounce my name incorrectly. I got used to hearing it pronounced the way most Americans pronounce the word "gunner" with accent on the first syllable. I rarely bothered to correct them, unless they specifically asked me how I and my closest family and friends pronounce it. My parents decided to teach others to pronounce my name like "GunNawr", with accent on the second syllable, which is not precisely how they pronounced it when speaking in Norwegian, but close enough, and easier for English speakers to learn and pronounce than precisely how our Norwegian friends and family pronounce it.

In Danish, which I actually know better than the Norwegian dialect I was exposed to the first five years of my life (because in my late youth I lived 2 and 1/2 years in Denmark, during which time most of the Norwegian I remembered from early childhood was transformed into Danish), my name is pronounced with accent on the first syllable, rather than the second, and a slight bit closer to how normal English speakers would say it, than to how my parents, with their Stavanger dialect of Norwegian, pronounced it. It is my understanding that even within Norway, though, the way my name is pronounced varies somewhat from region to region. So, I don't take offence if others unknowingly say it differently than I regard as correct.

Gunnar, I thought I remembered Norway, thank you for the clarifying information. The details are interesting.