Re: Butchered Foreign Names
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 6, 2000, 13:01 |
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On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, andrew wrote:
> Most Chomro would be gobsmacked by a name
> like Betzwieser - spell it Betswieser or Betswaiser, or leave it alone?
Betsfiser, probably, matching the original ['bEtsviz@R].
Only the Saesoin, with their 56 incomprehensible spelling rules,
would say ['bEtsvaIz@R].
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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