Re: How you pronunce foreign place names

In a message dated 1/21/2007 5:48:18 PM Central Standard Time, hmiller@IO.COM
writes:


> > 3. Pronounce it Englishly, butwith some exoticisation [beIZIN]
>
> Ugh. Now if I were speaking French or Portuguese that would make sense,
> but English has a perfectly good /dZ/ sound, and /Z/ might be mistaken
> for Chinese /r/. I don't expect reporters to know how Chinese /r/ is
> pronounced, but someone has got to let them hear a recording of how a
> native Chinese speaker pronounces Beijing (hint: they won't hear
> anything like a /Z/ in it).
>
But I hear it that way on the radio and TV a lot, and it makes me cringe.

stevo