Re: How you pronunce foreign place names
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 25, 2007, 15:23 |
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On 1/21/07, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> About that Arabic q: poor Qaddafi, [...]--- one
> sees them written/pronounced all over the map.
Though arguably even [q] is doing the poor fellow unjustice -- it's
not how /q/ is pronounced in his native 'lect, AFAIK. (Though I'm not
sure whether it'd be appropriate in MSA -- I'm not sure how much the
local varieties' phonologies influence the local accent of MSA.)
On 1/22/07, Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:
> And just how ís Myanmar supposed to be pronounced in English, anyway?
Non-rhotically, at any rate.
(I think an English-phoneme approximation might be "Myummah", with /V/
and whatever your "ah" sound is.)
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>