>>>between Ypsilanti Michigan and Northern Ohio, where American Radio English is widely spoken. It occurs >to me that I'm not sure of the proper American Radio English pronounciation of Ypsilanti.
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>>The "Y" is pronounced as an "I" (although you'll definitely hear people say "Yipsilanti" here).
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>...as an "I" like "eye", or as an "I" like "it"?
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Sorry, "I" like "it", or "Zip".

>BTW, I've found a place named Linkhorn. How is that pronounced?
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>- "lin-horn" as in "khrushchev"?
>- "link-orn" as in "herbs" (i.e. "erbs" - h being silent)
>- some other combination, unknown to me?
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I would guess almost as two different words, but with no delay between them: "Link" "Horn" (the "H" wouldn't be silent).

>In the end, I won't know khow to write my name - would it be Gnedeljkovich, Pnedeljkovich or Knedeljkovich? Each sounds right.

Probably anyway you'd like <g>