Re: OT: Another French name pronunciation question
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 30, 2004, 5:10 |
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MJR> Comment est-ce qu'on dit "Niépce"?
MJR> My best guess is [njeps] or maybe ['njep.s@].
RV> In spite of the acute, nobody would make me pronounce it this way. I would
RV> instinctively say [njEps:]. [nje] is an ugly sound!
Ugliness is in the ear of the beholder. :) I admit that [njE] feels more
natural than [nje], but why then put an acute there? It's not to
indicate emphasis, since that's where it would fall naturally. I can
only deduce that it must be to make the <e> sound like /e/ instead of
/E/.
-Mark
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