It's not "Belgian Ahn-deev", it's "BelgiuM ENdive" - Dan Quayle said it that way, so it must be so. (VP debate, 1988)
Oh, and as one who has possibly been to more of them than anyone else on the list, it is definitely ROdeo. (When I was a kid I liked to attend them, for some reason, and as a young working trombonist I used to play for them. The galops, marches played at one to the bar for the bull rides, were the fastest music I have ever played - great fun to attempt.) Actually, I seem to recall that the announcer at the ROdeo would always say something about the word coming from the Spanish roDEo. etc., etc. Raymond Horton On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Chuck Israels <cisra...@comcast.net> wrote: > Yeah, but I have learned to refrain from correcting the checkout clerks at > the grocery store when they call the stuff I buy En-dive, when I know > perfectly well, it's Ahn-deev. So I have just memorized the numerical code > and no longer have to tell them, "No, it's not baby bok choy, it's > Ahn-deev", and then watch the confused look. I try not to be insufferable > in my use of language, but I probably am. > > Chuck > > > On Mar 26, 2011, at 10:49 AM, John Howell wrote: > > > At 11:54 PM -0500 3/25/11, Aaron Rabushka wrote: > >> ...but it is sometimes neVAYduh, MO (with either mizzuREE or mizzurUH > trailing along) > >> Aaron J. Rabushka > >> arabus...@austin.rr.com > > > > Yes, distinctive regional pronunciations will always be with us. They > always seem like distortions to outsiders (which in a way seems to be the > whole point--separating "us" from "them"!). > > > > All my geography teachers--and almost all TV talking heads--pronounce the > mountain range about which Copland wrote (or didn't!) as Ap-pa-lay-chan. > But the folks who actually live here in that mountain range pronounce it as > Ap-pa-laa-chan (same vowel as the initial vowel). > > > > A nearby small town, Pulaski, is pronounced Pew-LAS-ki. > > > > And of course there's the famous Cairo, Illinois, whence the famous > syrup, "Kay-ro." > > > > Americans, quite aside from the inevitable regional dialects, have a > deserved reputation as terrible linguists, since the same language is spoken > (admittedly in different ways) across an entire continent. Unlike in > Europe, where when you travel you have to switch languages every 3 hours! > But I can't see much of a reason to take PRIDE in mispronouncing words > borrowed from other languages. > > > > John > > > > > > -- > > John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music > > Virginia Tech Department of Music > > College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences > > Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240 > > Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 > > (mailto:john.how...@vt.edu) > > http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html > > > > "We never play anything the same way once." Shelly Manne's definition > > of jazz musicians. > > _______________________________________________ > > Finale mailing list > > Finale@shsu.edu > > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > Chuck Israels > 1310 NW Naito Parkway #807 > Portland, OR 97209-3162 > phone: (503) 926-7952 > cell phone: (360) 201-3434 > www.chuckisraels.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
