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

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