From: Mark Davis (mark.edward.davis@gmail.com)
Date: Sat May 23 2009 - 15:03:16 CDT
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 11:39, Julian Bradfield
<jcb+unicode@inf.ed.ac.uk<jcb%2Bunicode@inf.ed.ac.uk>
> wrote:
> On 2009-05-22, Mark Davis <mark.edward.davis@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I had it on an old page; just copied up to
> > http://www.macchiato.com/main/aisle-bdellium-ctenoid
>
> Very nice! But why do you think Szilard is pronounced with /z/?
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Szilard
>
> Not in Hungarian, and I can't see why it should have been different in
> English.
If anything, one's expectations would be that the name would be pronounced
differently, more in accordance with native associations with letters: "Jan"
in English vs German, for example.
Non-initial silent S is easy to find; this was the only initial case I could
find...
>
> Why not use any sh- word?
Because "ʃ" is the expected pronunciation. "S" as in "ship" is not
surprising.
>
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