Re: /S/ in old and middle High German; was: Vikings

On Nov 25, 2004, at 8:45 AM, Tristan Mc Leay wrote:
> John Cowan wrote:
>> Sally Caves scripsit:
>>>> --hence the Hungarian values of _s_ and _sz_!
>>> I'm not familiar with the Hungarian values.
>> |s| is /S/, whereas |sz| is /s/.  Similarly, |z| is /ts/ and |zs| is
>> /Z/.
> Don't worry Sally, Australians aren't either, but we still manage to
> get
> at least the _sz_ in 'Mt Kosciuszko' right, even if the rest is
> appaling; it's pronounced /kOziOskOu/. If I remember the pronounciation
> a Pole told me correctly, the real Polish pronunciation is probably
> australianised better as /kOtSuskOu/ (at least, that's how I remember
> it, but I don't dare say it's the Polish pronunciation because I'll
> have
> my head bitten off). Don't ask anyone to spell it, though! (Mt
> Kosciusko
> is the tallest mountain in Australia.)
There's a Kosciuszko Bridge in New York City; I've heard that there are
two common ways to pronounce the name - /"kAski'Askow/ and
/kAS'tS)uskow/.


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