Re: Ladefoged

John Cowan writes:

>taliesin the storyteller wrote:
>
>>  (Peter Ladefoged for the phonetic side of things,
>> of course).
>
>His "Outline of Phonetics" has been described (on sci.lang,
>I think) as "answering every possible question about phonetics,
>except how to pronounce 'Ladefoged'".
>
>Eventually the answer was tracked down: although it's a
>Danish name, he pronounces it in his "debased RP" (self-description)
>as ['l&d@fowg@d].
Its virtually impossible for people who are not Danes
to pronounce that name correctly in the first place. I
pronounce it as ['lED=fo^D=], where [D=] is a syllabic
eth and [o^] is a raised [o].

-kristian- 8)