[Magdalen] Current Events.

[Grace Cangialosi]

What hearings, Judy? I don’t have TV.

> On May 1, 2019, at 10:28 AM, Judy Fleener <fleenerj at gmail.com> wrote:
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> And I am watching Hearings that are making me ill.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On May 1, 2019, at 7:37 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.