On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 03:15:58PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > There's no eee there in the english pronounciation, it's a hard short > "i". Ho hum, it seems this spectre will never lie ... > > I'm English so I'm going to pronounce it in an English way, just like we > call Paris Paris !
Reminds me of that guy I met on my interrail tour in 1991 (the first big travel to "the West"). He was English (or maybe even American, I wasn't aware of such subtle differences at that point of time). After learning that I am German he told me that he liked to read ... urm... "Gueethee" (pronounced [gi:øi:] (?)) very much. Most famous German writer you know. _I_ certainly did not know him. I still wonder what impression of my education he got. Luckily enough he was not able to mis-pronounce "Schiller" beyond recognition, too ;-} Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
