Re: CHAT: F.L.O.E.S.

At 07:31 26.2.2004, Ray Brown wrote:

>The monstrosity is also the way I hear it pronounced over here in
>Rightpondia,  with the stress on [ki:]. I mean, how else do you expect
>IKEA to be pronounced? The average 'anglophone in the street' hasn't a
>clue how Swedish is pronounced  ;)
Actually it is [i'ke:a] in Swedish, so IMO [I'ki:a] at least
has the stress in the right place.  'Tis the tonal peak
that is on the _a_, not the stress.



/BP 8^)
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