Re: CHAT: barbarisms (was: CHAT: Being both theologically correct and properly modern)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 14, 2001, 11:01 |
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At 08:22 2001-05-13 -0600, dirk elzinga wrote:
>My surname is most often pronounced with stress on the
>penultima, [El.'ziN.g@] rather than with native Frisian initial
>syllable stress: ['El.ziN.Xa]. The English accentuation fits the
>"Latinate" pattern, but "Elzinga" is certainly not a name taken
>from Classical Antiquity.
Which pronunciation do you use yourself?
/BP 8^)>
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