Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce

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From: "Isidora Zamora" <isidora@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce


> > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 09:48:36AM -0700, Heather Fleming wrote:
> > > > Except for "lieutenant," which everyone
> > > > knows ought to be pronounced "leftenant" except for the backwards
> > > > yokels who pronounce it the American way... ^_^
> > >
> > > Don't be absurd.  There's no "f" anywhere in "lieutenant", so
> >/,lEf'tEn@nt/
> > > is a terrible pronunciation, not at all as obvious as, say,
> > > the American pronunciation of "colonel" as /'k=r\nl=/.
> >
> >What do you think that |u| is for, then?  If it's not obviously /f/, then
I
> >don't know what the world's coming to.
>
> Well, there may be some precedent for pronouncing <eu> as /ef/ if there is
> some Greek influence in here somewhere :-)  The Greek name Euphemia is
> pronounced something like [Evfimia], and has been for a very long
> time.   Similarly, Eulogy is pronounced [Evlogi].

I think the best example would be 'Evangelism'.  True, it's not Greek, any
more, but it is derives from the Greek.