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Re: I'M BACK!!! :)

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Sunday, August 31, 2003, 15:22
Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:

> En réponse à Andreas Johansson : > > > >BTW, Christophe, on which syllable is the stress in "Maggel"? I guess I > ought > >to keep it in Meghean _magel_ ... > > Second syllable. It's pronounced [m@'gE:l].
Well, since this is primarily a spelling loan, the Meghean is then [ma'dZel]. (Had it been also intrafictionally a loan, it might've been [me'gel], spelt |megoel|, but that's very obviously foreign, and many people would no doubt nativify it to [me'dZel] anyway.) Andreas