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To: DMaA who wrote (173591)7/14/2006 5:11:37 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793822
 
I haven't seen much news on TV lately but I did hear a few references to Mumbai, which was pronounced to rhyme with "eye," which is how I would have pronounced it, too, had I had occasion to utter the word. But then there was a speech my some Indian muckety-muck who pronounced it to rhyme with Bombay.

Then there’s the English habit (Is this peculiar to the English?)

No, I don't think it's peculiar to English. In the half dozen languages I've studied, all have their own names for at least some foreign places.



To: DMaA who wrote (173591)7/14/2006 7:07:56 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Respond to of 793822
 
Everybody does it. The English don't call their capital Londre and their country Angleterre either.



To: DMaA who wrote (173591)7/15/2006 8:11:16 AM
From: kech  Respond to of 793822
 
Another good one, during WWI there was a famous battle at Ypres.

Pronounced EE-P en francais.

What do you suppose the Brits called it?

WI- PERS


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