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Lets send "Dubbya" a letter and have him say it. Just for a giggle.
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"md" not given to avoid spam wrote in message ... "OG" wrote in message ... "Davoud" wrote in message ... Eric: Thats been bugging me, I've heard it pronounced a bunch of different ways but what is correct? What, indeed. As others have pointed out, the Dutch pronunciation is at http://frank.harvard.edu/~paulh/misc/pics/huygens_96.mp3. But you and I don't speak Dutch and we are unlikely to guess at the Dutch pronunciation, because the spelling "Huygens" offers no hint to English speakers of the Dutch pronunciation. We're dealing with a language that has a name "Jaap" that is pronounced "yop," rhymes with "hope." What English speaker would guess at that. I had no trouble with the "y," but I had no clue that "aa" might be a long "o." well, it does not. The dutch name Joop would be pronounced as "yop" rhymes with "hope". Jaap is completely different :-) I can't think of an english word that rhymes with Jaap, sorry. I had a French friend who insisted that " Dutch iz not a langwidge, it is a dizeaze of zer sroat." |
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Since we're on the subject, how about "plossl"? They come with every
telescope, there are premium ones, cheap ones, super ones, sirius ones, GTO ones, etc., But how do you say it. No vowel in the second syllable, that always messes me up. jt |
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Isn't it spelled with an umlaut: Plössl? The pronunciation would then be
similar to pleh-sel Jmpngtiger wrote: Since we're on the subject, how about "plossl"? They come with every telescope, there are premium ones, cheap ones, super ones, sirius ones, GTO ones, etc., But how do you say it. No vowel in the second syllable, that always messes me up. jt |
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Eric wrote:
Thats been bugging me, I've heard it pronounced a bunch of different ways but what is correct? BTW: next time we are going to pass a world wide law that the name has to be something simple like "Dave" or "Hal" :-) Eric See (and hear): http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=huygens |
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Mary Platinum-Wig on FOX pronounced it, git ready:
hee-geese. Hee Hee for the Geese! Hilarious! But "Fox knows". hsi Eric wrote: Thats been bugging me, I've heard it pronounced a bunch of different ways but what is correct? BTW: next time we are going to pass a world wide law that the name has to be something simple like "Dave" or "Hal" :-) Eric -- Byte=8 bits, a kilobyte is 1024 bytes There is no such thing as a kibibit,mebibit etc |
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Sam Wormley wrote:
See (and hear): http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=huygens #1. The "see" bit is incorrect, in both cases (you'd think that they'd realise that both can't be correct, wouldn't you?). #2. As regards "hear", I'm damned if I'm going to pay 20 bucks for something that, in the light of the above, stands a good chance of turning out to be wrong. Best, Stephen Remove footfrommouth to reply -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Stephen Tonkin | ATM Resources; Astro-Tutorials; Astro Books + + (N51.162 E0.995) | http://astunit.com + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + |
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Eric wrote: Thats been bugging me, I've heard it pronounced a bunch of different ways but what is correct? BTW: next time we are going to pass a world wide law that the name has to be something simple like "Dave" or "Hal" :-) Eric -- Byte=8 bits, a kilobyte is 1024 bytes There is no such thing as a kibibit,mebibit etc |
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I pronounce it "min" -- rhymes with "daniel joseph min."
-- usenet *at* davidillig dawt com |
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