At around 5/11/06 7:59 pm, Jim Devine wrote:
> Sabri Oncu wrote:
>> It is pronounced Ear-run actually not Ear-ran. Similarly, Istanbul is
>> pronounced East-un-bull and I am yet to hear an American pronouncing
>> my last
>> name correctly. You Americans need to improve your pronunciation of
>> such names.
>
Well, to be fair after 15+ years I still am learning American and how to
pronounce it, and it is a language that is pretty close to a language I
know (English) ;-) whereas eastern languages are unknown to Americans.
>> Also, stop calling what everbody else calls wrestling football and what
>> everbody else calls football soccer. I cannot believe that you are
>> doing such things.
Where do you stand on hockey?
> Well, Sa-Bree Ohn-Kyu, 'least we Murricanz don't make a conscious
> effort to mess up the spelling (Livorno --> Leghorn, Napoli -->
> Naples, Kalicut --> Calcutta, etc.) the way them Brits done. That's
A correction: Calcutta is not a corruption of calicut which is an entire
other city (in the southwestern state of Kerala), but Kolkata, which
name has now been reinstated. But you are not far off: Calicut is a
British corruption too, of the name Kozhikode, the 'zh' part of which I
will never hold against anyone outside the region for mispronouncing. It
is so difficult a sound that I will not even attempt to phonetically
spell or describe it.
--ravi
