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].

Isidora

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