Re: OT: code-switching

Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:

> MJR> I suspect that if you, say, went to Spain,
> MJR> you would find that when they talk about Canada they don't say
> ['k&n@d@],
> MJR> but rather [kanada].
>
> DB> [kana'da] more like
>
> MJR> Well, if you're going to get nit-picky, it'd actually be [kana'Da]. :)
>
> AJ> Why not [ka'naDa]? Why the final stress?
>
> Well, the prima facie "reason" is that it's written that way in Spanish
> orthography: <Canadá>, with an accent mark over the final A.  But I don't
> know the historical reason behind that pronunciation.
Howing now actually switched my brain on, I rather suspect it's due to the
name, quite understandably, being borrowed from French.

                                                              Andreas

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