<jcowan at reutershealth dot com> wrote:
> Also, you have to allow for changes in the source: when the name
> "Leghorn" was coined, Livorno was still called Ligorno.
>
> ...
>
>> ("Pair-iss" is a bit over the top; English speakers are
>> certainly capable of saying "par-ee.")
>
> Again, when that name was borrowed, the French were still pronouncing
> the final -s and had not yet adopted their phrase-final stress rule.
Thanks for those two pearls. I had not heard them before.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
