[Magdalen] Current Events.

[Jay Weigel]

True they don't. But Venezuela seems to be an exception.

On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 9:34 AM Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:

> I suppose there's a choice to be made, though, between an Anglicized
> pronunciation and an authentically Spanish one. English speakers don't
> generally go for the Spanish pronunciation of Mexico, for instance, or
> Argentina.
>
> On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 8:30 AM Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > David Strang.
> > >
> >
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>