Re: CHAT: R: Re: CHAT: silly names

Tristan Mc Leay wrote:

> Robert Hailman wrote:
>
> >>                                             Andreas
> >>
> >> PS Speaking of weird place-names, the Argentine ones _Cauaiauaia_ and
> >> _Uoiauai_ are pretty good too. Croatian _Krk_ is quite okay too.
> >
> >
> > "Krk"? How'd that be pronounced? I'm thinkin' syllablic r, but I can't
> > remember how to represent that in ASCII-IPA.
>
> AFAIK, it is /krik/, or similar. But I could be wrong.
>
IIRC, the Croatian name for 'Trieste', an Italian town on the border, is
TRST /tr=st/, with a syllabic /r=/, so I'd be tempted to pronounce KRK
/kr=k/.

Luca