Re: CHAT: A flat minor (was: ATTN: Pablo Flores (VIRUS WARNING))
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 22, 2002, 16:22 |
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Teoh wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:54:49PM -0400, Roger Mills wrote:
>[snip]
> > Additions to the Index of Musical Mispronounciations: I once heard an
> > announcer refer to those well-known Russians, [SOs't&kovitS] and
> > ['prokofajf]. (And I've always been partial to that Frenchman, Jackie
>Bear.)
>[snip]
>
>Now I know Prokofiev is [proko"fi&v] but what is the correct pronunciation
>of Shostakovich? I've always pronounced it ["SAstakovitS] but I'm known to
>be quite wrong sometimes. :-) (And it doesn't help that where I come from,
>many people pronounce Beethoven as [bi:t"huv@n] *shudder*)
Speaking of names of unknown pronunciation, can anyone give me the correct
pronunciation(s) of the name of that Afghan general who bosses around in
Mazar-i-Sharif? Spellings in the Swedish press has included pretty much
everything from "Dustam" to "Doztum".
Andreas
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