Re: CHAT: silly names

> 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
>
Rik

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