Re: I have an opinion!
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 3, 2001, 2:47 |
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Frank George Valoczy scripsit:
> I've wondered about this often, as Hungarian will tend to pronounce
> acronyms as a word, even to the point of violating hungarian phonetic
> rules (what i mean is even if the Acronym couldn't possibly be a word in
> Hungarian), whereas in my experience English speaker would end up saying
> TAT as [ti: ei: ti:], even though it could well be a word in English...
It is, indeed, a word in English: 'to make lace by looping and knotting'.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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