Re: Yahoo has no staff tech writers

[Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net>]

Kevin McLauchlan wrote:

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.




Kevin, perhaps you missed my point. I am not suggesting that Julie-yard 
is wrong and zjhwee-YAR is correct. I am saying that Julie-yard has 
become the standard American pronunciation and that this is consistent 
with normal linguistic change. We're just a little earlier on the curve 
with nucular. Fifty years from now, I'd wager, nuclear will sound 
peculiar to most native speakers.


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