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To: jbe who wrote (1357)6/4/1998 1:49:00 AM
From: Rick Slemmer  Respond to of 4711
 
jb:

The Czechs may be bouncing now, but you may want to take a look at this regarding the standardization of Euro-English:

Message 4645275

Something else I noticed: whenever the nightly newsreaders report on an event of some magnitude in a far-flung foreign spot, they consistently try to twist their collective tongues around "awf-gahn-ee-STAN" or "herts-oh-GAV-ee-na." Yet these same journalists wouldn't be caught dead calling the capital of France "pah-REE" or referring to Red Square in "MOSK-va."

RS