Re: RV: Old English

Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...>
>
> At 02:33 PM 3/29/2000 -0500, Padraic wrote:
> [regarding English spellings for /S/.
> >We can add ci as well, as in Concepcion, a perfectly good Hispanic name,
> >but Manglified as [kn'sEp.Sn], just like its English counterpart.
>
> You've heard someone pronounce Concepcion like that? I wouldn't think it'd
> be a common enough word in English to justify including it.
    That is my foster son's surname, and in Hartford it is inevitably
pronounced (by English speakers) as /k@n sEp si 'on/, not quite the Spanish
pronunciation, but almost, and definitely with /s/ instead of /S/.  However,
there is a large Spanish speaking minority in Htfd., and Spanish surnames
are common, so you would expect less Anglification of pronunciation than
elsewhere.

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