Re: CHAT: silly names

Robert Hailman wrote:
> >
> > PS Speaking of weird place-names, the Argentine ones _Cauaiauaia_ and
> > _Uoiauai_ are pretty good too. Croatian _Krk_ is quite okay too.
>
>"Krk"? How'd that be pronounced? I'm thinkin' syllablic r, but I can't
>remember how to represent that in ASCII-IPA.
Well, I don't speak Croatian, so I don't know how it's intended to be
pronounced. www.ne.se gives the pronunciation as [kgrk] which's patently
unpronounceable - probably some kind of error.

However, there's a Czech word _krk_ "neck" that's pronounced [kr=k], that
is, with a vocalic r.

                                                Andreas

PS The Croatian version of "Croatia" is quite nice too - _Hrvatska_. I think
it's [xr=vatska].

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