Re: Cambodia v. Kampuchea

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:42:03 GMT

Douglas G. Kilday wrote:
>
> "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote ...
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Of course not! There's no /by/ in English. Maybe the bagel-like roll
> > called "bialy" in English represents a Yiddish < Slavic [bjali], but it
> > has three syllables in English. "Bjorn" as in Borg has two syllables,
> > and so does "fjord."
>
> That's ridiculous. I have always pronounced "Bjorn" and "fjord"
> monosyllabically. Did you get your information from a Monty Python sketch
> of Viking cowboys? "Jee-hah! Let's sail up this hee-jar fee-jord,
> Bee-jorn!"

And why would an Indo-European philologist be representative of General
American, or Standard English? Somewhere along the way, you have been
exposed to foreign languages and have learned to make alien sounds. Why,
you probably even have a mid front rounded vowel in "Goethe"!

> By the way, our fearless leader /dVby@/ has medial /by/.

No, he has a syllable boundary there. /b.y/ 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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