[Sca-cooks] Reptilian Pronunciation (was Drive up ATM's OT, OOP (was Languages)

Philip & Susan Troy troy at asan.com
Wed May 22 18:39:42 PDT 2002


Also sprach lilinah at earthlink.net:
>BBC newscasters say jag-yew-ar for jaguar

I'll concede their right to call the British auto brand by that name,
but the animal is very clearly not a jagyewar, unless it is given a
new name that is neither Spanish nor indigenous, native South
American.

As for al-yew-min-i-um, I can only say that you don't get to rename
other people's achievements to suit yourself, especially to the point
of adding syllables.

Adamantius, speakuh of duh King's Inglish...



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