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

Eric Christopherson wrote:
>
> At 03:40 AM 3/31/2000 +0100, And wrote:
> >"Xhosa" = /k@Us@/ and /h@Us@/ on BBC; I myself am unsure how to pronounce
> >it in either English or Xhosa - I've a vague idea it starts with some kind
> >of lateral click,
This is how I understood it.  A lateral click.  Back in my salad days,
when
I was at Berkeley and studying the oral formula, a scholar came and gave
a long paper on the oral formulaic poetry of the Xhosa tribe.  The
pronunciation
of "Xhosa" occasioned a great deal of interest, and everyone went around
practicing
it.

 (though other
> >Nagys get called /'nA:gi/).
I knew a Nagy.  He explained that his name in proper Hungarian was more
like Nudge or even Naidge, but /naZ/ would do.  He did get Naggy or
Neggy
as a common pronunciation.  Sometimes Nadgy.  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.

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