I know how to pronounce "Szywa"

[sheyvah]

So, while it's still free, my family has been puttering around the government records on ancestry.com. The first day's exciting find was my great-grandpa Saul's draft card from WWI. He wrote "conscientous objector." According to my grandmother, he objected to the part where he might get shot at (as opposed to the shooting thing in general

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[tywysoges]

I'm guessing it's 'sheyvah'?

[tywysoges]

(except that I've never been quite sure if that's pronounced how it looks, either)

[sheyvah]

Darn. I was hoping it wasn't THAT obvious. :) But, yeah, that's how it's pronounced (stress on the first syllable).

[anaximander]

no, it was that obvious. I didn't comment 'cause I thought everyone else would.