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Subject:Re: Yahoo has no staff tech writers From:Kevin McLauchlan <kmclauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:18:50 -0400
On Thursday 10 October 2002 16:21, Dick Margulis wrote:
> Here's my test list. No cheating. Read these words aloud
> quickly as you normally pronounce them. Then look at the
> way they are spelled and were, presumably, pronounced by
> educated speakers at some point in the past:
>
> lingerie
> Juilliard
> bouillon
I guess that's not a fair test for me. I lived in Quebec for
18 years. I can get past the usual pronounciation of
lingerie (unless I'm making fun), but Juilliard is
zjhwee-YAR, and bouillon is bwee-OHN, where the "on"
is a very abrupt sound that's not very much like the
word "on" in English.
When I emigrated to Canada, and looked for a house, I
alternated between gagging and restraining guffaws...
because...
The previous owners of my house were named Boucher.
To me, that has ALWAYS been BooSHAY. It is, after
all, a French name (means butcher).
But, these people were pronouncing it like voucher.
(Yeah, I know where *that* word came from, too, but
even the French kids pronounced that one the English
way when I was growing up in the only officially bilingual
province in Canada.)
"The problem with defending the purity of the English
language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse
whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has
pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them
unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -
James D. Nicoll
Says it all.
Cheers,
/kevin
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