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Re: CHAT: A flat minor (was: ATTN: Pablo Flores (VIRUS WARNING))

From:bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 22, 2002, 16:21
 --- "Nathaniel G. Lew" <natlew@...> wrote: >

> > I have always been amused by the varying > pronunciations of Debussy. In the > UK, he is pretty much /d@'bjusi/,
generational. the divide is around my parents' age i think ( mid 50s at the moment ). younger people will say /dI'bu:si/ ( /I/ i think is correct, altho it can come out [@] in some accents ), just as they'll say /su:t/ for /sju:t/ |suit| in the US
> /'dEbj@si/ -- please insert > your preferred diphthongs for u and i -- and of > course in France, when > pronounced alone he is /d@by'si/, so as he moves > from country to country > and continent to continent, he gets all three of his > syllables accented. > Lucky guy. >
lucky indeed. then again, in russia my name is |met'ju batt| /'mEt_jju bAt/ and in france it's /mat'ju b9t/, but not being a famous composer, i suppose my luck isn't in the same league . . . bn ===== bnathyuw | landan | arR stamp the sunshine out | angelfish your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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