Author: Mihaly Szalai
Date: 09:30:03 08/17/04
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On August 17, 2004 at 11:45:59, Murano Lima wrote: >On August 17, 2004 at 09:50:20, Ed Trice wrote: >Hello Ed, > >I am not sure what you expected: >English is not the only language all over the planet. >Italian, Russian, Dutch, .... >All these languages have their own "rules" of pronunciation. >And the truth is even more cruel: >In many of these languages there is a better correspondance >between writing and pronunciation than in the very conservative English >orthography. >Sorry for the truth ;-) > >Murano Yes. Eg. here in Hungary we would pronounce Trice as it is written: Treetze :-) In Italy: Treeche, in France Tris ... etc. My christian name is the hungarian version of Michael, the pronunciation is Me - hi :-) (Me as I and hi as the common short greeting...) Best Mihály (Me - hi)
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