Re: phonology of borrowed words
| From: | Robert B Wilson <han_solo55@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 21, 2002, 23:08 |
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On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 07:46:19 -0500 Muke Tever <mktvr@...> writes:
> And then we get things like "hors d'oeuvres" pronounced with
> "d'oeurves" (that
> metathesis is not native to French, is it?)
i don't know about the metathesis, but i pronounce it as [hORz dOuvR=z]
> Then there's just odd cases like "buckaroo" from Spanish "vaquero"
> (where's that
> stress shift come from? especially if we're supposed to have
> penultimating
> tendencies?)
well, "buckaroo" follows normal english stress patterns, AFAICT. most
people probably don't think that this is a foreign word and therefore
pronounce it as if it were a native english word.
> *Muke!
Robert Wilson (aka Elentirno Perellar aka Kuvazokad aka Eldir)
http://kuvazokad.free.fr/
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