Re: [OT] CJK -> CJC (Re: Corea?)

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 16:45:28 EST

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    <jcowan at reutershealth dot com> wrote:

    > Also, you have to allow for changes in the source: when the name
    > "Leghorn" was coined, Livorno was still called Ligorno.
    >
    > ...
    >
    >> ("Pair-iss" is a bit over the top; English speakers are
    >> certainly capable of saying "par-ee.")
    >
    > Again, when that name was borrowed, the French were still pronouncing
    > the final -s and had not yet adopted their phrase-final stress rule.

    Thanks for those two pearls. I had not heard them before.

    -Doug Ewell
     Fullerton, California
     http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/

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