Re: Ladefoged

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, John Cowan wrote:

> 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].
>
He has published the pronounciation of his name on his homepage:
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/linguistics/people/ladefoge/ladefoge.htm,
just like me...

He's writing a cool book with a CD to go with it, too!

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.valdyas.org