[Sca-cooks] Wine names

[Kirrily Robert]

Lainie asked:
> Nice theory, but it does require that you know the origins and/or context
> of the word. It shows up on labels here as 'shiraz'. No clue where the word
> came from. The wines are usually Australian. Would you care to educate me
> in Australian? Is it an inflected language? Is it Indo-European?  Germanic
> or Romance? Surely not- maybe related to one of the language groups in
> Indonesia? ;-D) ;-D)

For what it's worth, the word "shiraz" is uniformly pronounced
"shuh-RAZZ" in Australia.  I had never ever heard the "syrah"
pronunciation until coming to North America, and I hung around with some
people who knew their wines reasonably well.

Yours,

Katherine

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