Re: Re: Pro-nun-see-ay-shun


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Posted by Rick Denney on February 19, 2002 at 04:27:14:

In Reply to: Re: Pro-nun-see-ay-shun posted by just my opinion... on February 18, 2002 at 21:17:19:

Does Marcinkiewicz really use an S sound at the first C? I would have thought (and have heard) Mar-chink-eh-wits.

Only quibbles with your others: OH-fi-clyde, with the i as in sick. Pronouncing the unstressed second syllable without a specific vowel is a particular weakness of English and German. Of course, who knows what language spawned that dreadful word. I prefer AWE-full-clyde.

For the same reason, Cerveny should probably be properly pronounced Cher-VAY-nee, with the first syllable like the singer but with a hard CH as in church. And perhaps the n is sort-of like an ñ in Spanish. But you can never tell with that Czecho stuff. I've heard it CHIV-i-nee and sir-VAY-nee and everything in between.

Rick "A Texas living in Virginia and therefore unqualified to comment, but congenitally disposed to comment anyway" Denney


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