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Re: USAGE: XH etc. (was: RE: RV: Old English)

From:Tim Smith <timsmith@...>
Date:Saturday, April 1, 2000, 20:54
At 12:44 PM 4/1/2000 EST, Roger Mills wrote:
>In a message dated 4/1/2000 9:02:59 AM Eastern Standard Time, >scaves@FRONTIERNET.NET writes: > ><< The "y" is an indication, > he explained, that the preceding consonant is fronted or palatalized. > Example > Mikhaily (his brother)... pronounced /mI'kail/. If I recall correctly. >> > So I understand, too. There is a well-known artist here in S.Florida >(presumably of Hungarian descent) named John Kiraly, usually called >[kI'rali], versus the Olympic water-polo/volleyball? star of a few years >back, Karch Kiraly, called [kI'rai]. Ya pays yer money..... >
And the sight-singing exercises that I used in freshman music theory were by Zoltan Kodaly, which I've always heard pronounced as [ko'dai]. - Tim