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Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
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Date: 
Wed, 27 Jun 2001 04:10:18 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Shiri Dori writes:
> 
> LOL! You may not find it hard to believe that I speak much worse English
> after two years in the good ol' US of A.

8?) Even in my short trip (~5 weeks) I found myself pronouncing things with
an accent, just to get the Murkans to understand!!

> I'm thinkin of adding many more "name pronounciation" keys. I'd like to know
> how to say Larry's last name,

Didn't actually ask the Pieniazeks how they pronounce it, but I say it like
Peen-yart-sik, accent on the 2nd syllable. Or maybe even Pin-yart-sik. Lar?

> for example, and there are many more I have no
> clue how to say. (Chris teases me for how I say Dave Low and Dave Schuler's
> last names, especially. I'm sure it's obvious to everyone except me...)

ROSCO



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  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) Close. No R. pin-yacht-sick (yachts are big boats so that's the syllable that gets the accent) My Polish relatives say it "more correctly" as pin-o-scheck. (25 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)

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  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
In lugnet.space, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes: <snip> (...) LOL! You may not find it hard to believe that I speak much worse English after two years in the good ol' US of A. As for that sentence, I just pretended Chris was saying it. ;-) Here's a (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)

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