How would you pronounce my last name?

Question

How would you pronounce my last name "Aponte"? It is of Spanish origin yet everyone I meet pronounces it differently. My family has always pronounced it the Spanish way, but I'm wondering how you would pronounce the name in English, without using a Spanish accent.

Would it be:
uh-PONT
uh-PON-tay
or uh-PON-tee?

Which one sounds most correct? Thanks for your help everyone!

Answer 1

I would pronounce it Smith... just kidding, i would say it as "ah pont tay"

Answer 2

uh-PON-tee, for me in English, though I think uh-PON-tay is likely more correct. Don't know what the Spanish would be, of course - although, being Australian and therefor speaking only English, I once spent most of a night chatting happily to a Spanish taxi-driver (who spoke no English) as he drove me across Spain, past Don Quizote's ghostly windmill giants of La Mancha silhouetted against the stars, to Alicante - all with smatterings of broken bits of words rooted in Latin etc ... and with much waving of our hands which was a language I learned from an Arab grandfather. No word sounds really meaningful without the appropriate gesture, I reckon! As a curious sidelight, my physiotherapist tells me that when I talk he can feel every muscle in my body twitch - and he's never found that before. No wonder I'm tired in my old age. So I'll go and lie down, and dream of Spain and other wonders of youth. Salud?

Answer 3

A-pon-tay

Answer 4

I would say, in a sort of spanish, sort of texan way, I'd pronounce it the "uh-PON-tay" way, but I have a feeling that most people would go with uh-PONT.

I'm in favor of the former, however.

Answer 5

I would say ah-PON-tay, but I live in CA so I am very familiar with how to pronounce Spanish-sounding names.

Answer 6

I'm not an English fellow but I think it's uh-PON-tay.

Answer 7

Mon-tay-lee-own

Answer 8

uh-PON-tay sounds right to me.

Answer 9

uh-PON-tee! (= a very unique last name!

Answer 10

uh-pon-tay

Answer 11

I would say uh-PON-tay.