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Subject: Re: Sunday morning dumb question

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 09:24:02 07/20/03

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On July 20, 2003 at 12:19:04, Slater Wold wrote:

>On July 20, 2003 at 05:28:57, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>
>>On July 20, 2003 at 04:09:49, Mihaly Szalai wrote:
>>
>>>What is the right pronounciation of Sjeng?
>>>Judging by his name the author is an Italian,
>>>but he lives in Belgium where people speak French
>>>and Flemish and German. I am totally confused...
>>
>>I went to www.google.com and searched for:
>>sjeng -chess pronunciation
>>
>>The first link was to:
>>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/tennis/2001/australian_open/news/2001/01/12/men_prono/
>>
>>I scrolled down and found:
>>Sjeng Schalken, Netherlands -- (chang SHALL-ken)
>>
>>Of course, this does not guarantee that this is the intended pronunciation by
>>the author of sjeng. Only he can answer that.
>
>It is.  It is named after that Tennis player.

Really? I thought it was named after Gnejs, a strong crazyhouse player.



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