Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 08:43:59 -0500 From: will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:30:58AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 12:22:23AM -0500, will trillich wrote: >>> for example, how should 'calliope' be prounounced, eh? >>> CAL-ee-ope? sure looks that way -- but no, it's >>> cal-EYE-o-pee. >> Actually, no. To me, it looks like it should be >>ak-TWAL-ee, no. tew mee, it LOW-ox lih-KE it sho-ULD bee >> pronounced like the latter. . . .
>english is of course a language saturated in exceptions . . . Back to `Debian'. Both de- & -ian are common in English, & it's a tossup whether a reader chancing upon `Debian' for the first time will favor `De-' or `-ian'. Hence ehb vs eeb. Now hear Kingsley Amis's narrator in _The Green Man_: `Other people's priorities are endlessly odd.' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]