[Sca-cooks] pronunciations

Siegfried Heydrich baronsig at peganet.com
Tue Jun 25 10:57:46 PDT 2002


    Of course, I am reminded of the local NPR announcer who once introduced
a 'Ragtime by Scott Joh-plahn'. After it was over (and, I suspect, the
recipient of many amused phone calls), he rather ruefully admitted it was
actually Scott Joplin . . .

    Sieggy

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>
>On Tuesday, June 25, 2002, at 10:16 AM, vongraph wrote:
>>> If I am speaking french, I will use the french pronunciation. If I am
>>> speaking 'murican, I will use the american pronunciation. I don't need
>>> 'false erudition' to prove how smart I am.
>>>
>>> chow, baby
>>> margali
>>> [and yes I know it is spelled ciao.]
>>
>> I like that:)
>>
>> Wondering why ou wouldn't pronounce it  Ki aO :)
>
>Because that would be a bovine in the southern United States?





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