Re: OT: German reputation

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:15:27 -0500, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> The accent is indeed on the last syllable, hence the graphical accent.  The
> question is whether there is one or two syllables before that.  J. Mach
> interprets it as two, and it may sound that way in rapid speech, but my
> Spanish-speaking friends seem to consistently pronounce it with three.
> [a.Di'os], not [a'Djos].  I suppose that makes sense, since it derives from
> the phrase [a'Di.os], but that begs the question - why did the emphasis
> shift to the final syllable in the combined form?
Odd, I have it from the phrase [a "djos].  I don't think I've ever heard "Dios"
as a disyllable--and I went to the Spanish church a lot when I was younger.

And actually, before yesterday I never heard [%adi"os] trisyll. except in
Japanese anime.  (Nevertheless, I did hear it yesterday, and from a native
speaker.)


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