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On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:37:58 -0600, Brian Link <blink@visi.com
Most of the folks I talk with pronounce the surname with the accent on
the first syllable.
However, when I was in England recently on a choir tour, our tour
guide had a different opinion...
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And
pronunciation! I don't think there IS a "proper" pronunciation,
since it varies geographically, unless you assume that modern British
English is automatically the same pronunciation....
Nations separated by a common language.
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In some German words ending in "en" it seems as though some people do
not pronounce the "en". Is there a grammatical rule for this or is it
something that is becoming/has become in vogue?
Grüße,
Tom
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
He just doesn't have the overexaggerated enunciation of
an ....
This is fairly clear pronunciation from a normal
speaker.
Even in sloppy dialectal pronunciation, the resulting consonant is
considerably longer than of German
syllabic n.
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On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 02:27:49 -0700 (PDT), Farhad <fvafajoo@gmail.com
How is Moscow pronounced in English? I used to pronounce it as Mos-
COW, but the other day I heard someone saying Mos-CO. Which one is
correct?
Farhad
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
--Jeff pronunciation
and concentrating on the....
"Moss" has an entirely different ("mawss")
pronunciation for me.
Maybe it was less
hassle that way, but it does
I'd say Mahss-COW .
Spelling, and change the pronunciation to a 'W'.
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On Thu, 28 May 2009 00:56:40 -0700 (PDT), Jani Patokallio <jani@contentshare.sg
Greetings,
Over at Wikipedia, there's been a big ol' flame war about the proper
pronunciation and romanization of the katakana sequence オウ "ou", and
I'd like to solicit...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
You're correct if you are thinking that Hebonshiki will
spell both 大きゅう（なった） and 王宮 these days people say
“I use ... .
I guess the advantage of the macron
is that
you have a better chance of getting reasonable pronunciation
pronunciation.
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How can I request that someone stop correcting my grammar and/or pronunciation of words?
This is in a social setting and the person who does this frequently is a friend's husband. I do value the friendship and I often enjoy doing things with both of these...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at metafilter):
As someone who's paid to write without error-- and I can speak that way pronunciation? You knew what....
I didn't realize how petty to make a mistake" Editor here.
I used to correct people's grammar/pronunciation errors all the time.
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Greetings :
In texts of liturgical / ecclesiastical Latin, prayers are often written with accents to aid a person in rendering proper pronunciation of the text.
i have found the following uses for the demonstrative pronoun, " Is ea id , " neuter accusative...
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Vergil's tendency, but a characteristic of any good Latin hexametre that the pronunciation of the last 2 feet is in line with the natural pronunciation, simply because the heavy syllables happen a person in rendering proper pronunciation....
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On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:09:11 -0800 (PST), Naseer <qureshna@googlemail.com
janaab-i-Nagesh Sahib, aadaab 'arz hai
The pronunciation sounds "similar" to Persian because it *is* Persian
and *not*Urdu. There is of course bound to be a difference between...
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Naseer <qures...@googlemail.com
This is what ShaiKH Abdul Qaadir, the editor of "MaKHzan", Lahore, Naseer <qures...@googlemail.com
This is what ShaiKH Abdul Qaadir, the editor of "MaKHzan", Lahore.
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Is anyone else looking forward to this new novel from Murakami? 1Q84 is based on the Japanese pronunciation of 1984 and is a reference to Orwell's famous book.
Originally published in three volumes in Japan, the first print of which sold out the day of...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at thedigitalfix):
This roundtable between two translators of Murakami and one editor two translators of Murakami and one editor offers, among other insights, some inside perspective, I was not recognized as an editor....
Philip Gabriel is doing the third.
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Because the ipod touch 2nd generation still can't be jailbroken... .
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I've never heard anyone refer to a mexican 'jesus' as 'jeezus' eg:
pronounced like the christ dude--they always gotta try to
pronounce it in spanish (butchering it most of the time) and come
up with something like 'heyzeus' or similar pronunciation......
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
The Aramaic original was Yeshu, or Yeshua, that is, Joshua, like the
guy... .
German: Yay-soos (short oo, like in "look").
Olivier in Richard III).
Latin: Yay-soo, or Yee-soo, though you will hear Jeez-you by some
actors doing Elizabethan English (viz .
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