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Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce

From:Isidora Zamora <isidora@...>
Date:Monday, October 6, 2003, 17:54
> > 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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