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With some degree of likelyhood: it's a phonetic english attempt to write Ljunggren. Common swedish lastname.

The "L" in Ljunggren is silent [not pronounced]. And in the english language the letter "Y" stands for the sound "J".
The "E" is long, but the english language doesn't have long E. In english the letter "E" stands for three different sounds:
(1) short E [word "tell" for example]
(2) long I [word "she" – " – ]
(3) short I [word "england" – " – ]

In english, the letter "U" often stands for the sound "A" [words like "cut", "bus"], and the two-letter combination "OU" in the word "young" sounds rather similar to the sound "A".
In the word "glue", on the other hand, the U is pronounced rather similar to the U in "Ljunggren".

• Youngrin - Lindsay  Jul 25 2003, 10:40:00 PM
  • Re: Youngrin - Ålefeskarn  Oct 9 2003, 2:56:01 PM