Author: Murano Lima
Date: 12:57:12 08/17/04
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On August 17, 2004 at 15:17:25, Ed Trice wrote: > >> >>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...) >> > >Well, in this country, it is pronounced like > >TRY ss > >rhyming with "ice". > >From this post I have learned that English is really in dire need of a phonetic >basis of communication! All of our "could would should" stuff needs to go out >the window! linguists use the IPA = International Phonetic Alphabet. It is useful even for native speakers of the American language. ;-) Have a look at http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/PhonResources/PhonResources.html as a starting point. Murano
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