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Menzies = Ming because the z isn't really one. It's a bastardisation of a now-lost letter that had the ng sound.


Not sure on sinjun though. Or Featherstonehaugh (Fanshaw) for that matter.


Here's one that me and the mrs can't settle: CLEMatis (my preferred one) or clem-AE-tis (hers)?

SimonM Wrote:

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> I think you have to blame the Beeb for this one -

> the guy who read the football results always

> referred to "Shrowsbury Town"...


i always thought it was called "shrowsbury town nil".........

SimonM Wrote:

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> >>"Aluminium"

>

> I think that most Americans pronounce it as

> "aluminum"

> That's because they spell it that way though...




And your point is caller ?


to be honest it still grates when I hear them say it... much like DATA or DARTA

I've been having a little trouble recently with:


Tsaoische (sp?) - the boss of Ireland. I see it written all the time but how do you pronounce it!


Beatific - Be Ah tific? Not Beetific. Eh? Why?


Religious thingy - Diocese. How is this one supposed to sound?


And hyperbole - that's an annoying pronunciation.



Oh, and Beijing in Cantonese is "Bah Ging" and in Mandarin "Bay Jing/tsing". In English I'm sure that either Zj or J pronunciation is cool.



Current pet hate is leverage with lever rhyming with trevor. It is LEEEver! Oh and Process rhyming with crosses. It is PrOHcess! It's American business speak leaking into my office.



Charlie



Charlie

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> it's not QUITE 100% right DC - and I'm sure of of

> my compatriots on here might do a better phonetic

> - but it's close enough

>

> now.... MacGabhann - how DO you pronounce that ;-)


Like the lead singer of the Pogues? McGowan?

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