[Magdalen] Current Events.

[Jay Weigel]

I won't even begin to get into the pronunciation of the new (or former)
Japanese emperors' names except to say that both my father and my late
Israeli friend (who was raised there) taught me that Japanese is also not a
strongly stressed language, and what stress there is might more properly be
on the second syllable rather than the third as westerners are wont to
pronounce it.

Venezuela, however, is *correctly* pronounced with the sibilant "s". That
is its proper Spanish pronunciation, regardless of your dictionary. Sorry
about that.

On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 8:37 AM cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> As the world follows the events in Venezuela, I keep routinely hearing
> news-peoplepronounce the country name with a sibilant "s" instead of a "z"
> sound.  My dictionaryuses the "z" sound.
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> But then, the news-people insist it's Hell-SINK-i  instead of the correct
> HELL-sink-i.I'll admit that Finnish is not a strongly stressed language,
> but what stress there isis on the first syllable.  I guess there is a
> desire to avoid hell.
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> David Strang.
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