Re: National Spelling Bee - national shame?

benlizro@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Bart Mathias wrote:

Peter T. Daniels wrote:

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(Anyone every heard "coiny" for koine?)

By some kind of amazing coincidence, yes, maybe three times on TV just
lat night. (Never before that.)


It's given as the sole pronunciation by Jones/Gimson (13th ed). Or at
least they give /'kOini:/, but IIUC this would not make it a homophone
of "coiny" (resembling a coin) if there were such a word, since the -y
suffix is just /i/. So maybe the dumbographic representation would be
KOI-nee?


That and the two Hawaiian words were the ones I got right.


So, for those of us who don't get the Spelling Channel, what were the
Hawaiian words?

The ones that came up while I was watching were "kama`aina," but without the okina and of course without the macron that I too have left off the second "a," and "hukilau."

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Bart Mathias
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