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[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I got this info from the International Phonetic Alphabet, and they spelled/pronounced it ˈandʐɛj. Maybe to someone speaking Polish, there’s some material difference between “Rz is read like z” and “the R is silent”, but when you’re an Anglophone trying to explain Possession to your Dad, it doesn’t seem to matter. Then again, with a film like Possession, trying to grasp the less intuitive nuances of Polish pronunciation is probably the least of your worries.

I don't know about IPA but for all that it's worth there isn't an "r" there for all practical purposes. It's not silent but joined with another letter making "rz"; you don't omit it while speaking the name but treat it as different letter altogether. In fact there aren’t any silent letters in Polish.

It's only a quibble though, nothing with practical relevance. I would say that no Andrzej would care but who knows, there might be one in this big, big world who would.

In Irish, there are both broad and slender vowels and broad and slender consonants. Whether any of these are broad or slender depends on which vowels/vowel combinations are paired with broad or slender consonant/consonant combinations and vice versa.

And people wonder why Irish is a dying language.

Boru