Re: Multilingual translation exercise, part 1
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 17, 2002, 21:37 |
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Mike Karapcik wrote:
>| From: Andreas Johansson [mailto:and_yo@HOTMAIL.COM]
>| Subject: Re: Multilingual translation exercise, part 1
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>| Dare I ask how anglophones pronounce _ennui_?
>| Andreas
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> Translation: How badly do anglophones butcher it?
>
> I've heard "en.wi'", "en.wah'", and rarely, "en'.w@"
And in addition to JC's ['An.wi], there's 3 syl. ['An.ju.wi] (the _w_ in
this case merely transitional; phonemically I suppose it would be /'Anjui/)