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Re: CHAT: silly names

From:Robert Hailman <robert@...>
Date:Saturday, March 17, 2001, 21:04
Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > Ugh. How can anyone pronounce words like that? Go for shortness instead and > emigrate to the Nowegian village Å (that's an "A" with a small ring above). > Pronounced [o:].
Å? Now *that's* a name.
> Andreas > > 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. -- Robert

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