[Sca-cooks] A necesseary instructional video

[Ian Kusz]

of  course, I recently found out that the Dutch pronunciation of Van Gogh is
Van KHOKH.  where kh is a "hard" h, like in bach.

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Margaret Rendell <
m_rendell at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>
> >On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:36:42 -0500, "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius" <
> >adamantius1 at verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Dec 13, 2010, at 10:02 PM, Margaret Rendell wrote:
> >>
> >> > PS is that the standard US pronunciation of gnocchi?
> >>
> >> As far as I know, the standard US pronunciation is NYO-ki.
> >>
>
> It wasn't actually the 'ny' which surprised me -  what sounded different to
> me was the long O vowel - I'm used to a very short one.
>
>
> > The one that drives me crazy is the pseudo-Greek back-documented
> > pronunciation of gyro,
>
> It's spelled 'yiros' more often here, don't know how it's said though - my
> vegetarianism is leaving holes in my general knowledge. I gather they're
> excellent late at night after one or six beers, though :)
>
>
> Margaret/Emma
> Krae Glas, Lochac/Melbourne, Australia (the third largest Greek city in the
> world).
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Ian of Oertha