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Re: CHAT: silly names

From:Rik Roots <rikroots@...>
Date:Friday, March 23, 2001, 20:09
> 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. >
Not as good as the above examples, but there's a village a few miles from where I was born called Lympne.
> -- > Robert >
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