Re: [GZG] Full Thrust Lite

This from the guy with the Tom Lehrer quote in his signature.
"Hen3ry... the 3 is silent."  :)

--Greg

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Oerjan Ariander wrote:

> Mike Llaneza wrote:
>
>> Oerjan Ariander wrote:
>>>> Actually, for a language derived from the attempts of French
speaking
>>>> soldiers to pick up German speaking barmaids, we have remarkably
regular
>>>> rules for pronunciation; it's just that far too many of them come
from
>>>> French.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Although "Slough", though... :-p
>>>
>>> (Hint: the placename above does *not* rhyme with the other two words
:-/ )
>>>
>> Great example, but...
>> That's both a proper noun, which type tends to have unique
>> pronunciation,
>
> Sorry, but as a furriner I really *don't* consider being a proper noun
to
> be a valid excuse for not following the same pronounciation rules as
other
> word classes... :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Oerjan
> orjan.ariander1@comhem.se
>
> "Life is like a sewer.
>  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
> -Hen3ry
>
>
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