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A guide to names and words in the news, from Lena Olausson of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Pronunciation Unit.

"This week's pronunciation is the Hungarian prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsány. The surname is a bit of a tongue-twister, both the first and the last sounds are foreign to English ears. In our usual - slightly anglicised - treatment, the best recommendation we can give is: FERR-ents JOOR-chaany (-j as in Jack, -ch as in church, -ny as in manual). The accent over the a in the surname is an indication of vowel length, not stress. In Hungarian, the stress always falls on the first syllable."

(For a guide to our phonetic pronunciations, click here.)

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