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

From: "Ray Brown" <ray.brown@...>
Subject: Re: CHAT: F.L.O.E.S.


> 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  ;)
More importantly, how is one supposed to know the language of origin of
this, or any other name in English?  Plenty of words in English get mangled,
not because people won't try and pronounce it as a foreign word, but that
they'll get the wrong kind of foreign.