---- Bob W <p...@web-options.com> wrote: > > whatever the Welsh call their language (Welsh? some flavor > > of Gaelic?) > > The English call it Welsh. The Welsh call it Cymraeg. > http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/learnwelsh/ > > Laphroig: 'Lafree > > Islay: 'Eye luh > > Dunlaoghaire: Dunleary > > If you drink enough of the stuff you can pronounce anything any way you > like, and everyone will understand you. > http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=s3LRpHNB3l8&feature=related > > Some languages are just naturally difficult. We have some German clients and > have been searching for advice about the correct way to pronounce the name > of one of them: Herman Jungkunz. > > Bob
One of my locum native speaker German teachers at school was called Werner Breitscheidt. > > > > > Larry Colen wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 04:24:02PM -0500, Paul Stenquist wrote: > > > # I'm an Islay guy. Laphroig or Lagavulin for me. Give me peat! > > > > OK, this is something that's bugged me for a long time. Is there a > > resource out there on the Internet, or anywhere else, where I > > can figure > > out how to pronounce (a) Scottish names/words and (b) Welsh > > names/words? > > I'm /not/ kidding. "Islay" looks easy but I bet I don't > > pronounce it > > like the natives. And the other two are just beyond me. And > > we won't > > even get into the "forty-three-consonants-in-a-row" stuff > > that shows up > > in whatever the Welsh call their language (Welsh? some flavor > > of Gaelic?). > > > > -- > > Thanks, > > DougF (KG4LMZ) > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
