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Languages and Linguistics

Tetrachloride

(8,442 posts) Tue Mar 7, 2023, 02:22 AM Mar 2023

My phonological English bucket list: item #1 "Buttigieg"

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pronounce+buttegieg&t=iphone&ia=web

your mileage may vary.

looking forward to other people’s problem words

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My phonological English bucket list: item #1 "Buttigieg" (Original Post) Tetrachloride Mar 2023 OP

Exegesis. sprinkleeninow Mar 2023 #1

The problem is requiring obeisance to orthography and transliteration. Igel Mar 2023 #2

Slavic and like Hungarian, mb Polish, the accent is on the syllable not expected. sprinkleeninow Mar 2023 #3

sprinkleeninow

(20,540 posts)

1. Exegesis.

Reply to Tetrachloride (Original post)

Tue Mar 7, 2023, 02:40 AM

Mar 2023

I put the acCENT on the wrong sylLABLE.

Igel

(36,018 posts)

2. The problem is requiring obeisance to orthography and transliteration.

Reply to sprinkleeninow (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 14, 2023, 05:54 PM

Mar 2023

Knew a guy whose last name was Drzewiecki. Even he mangled the Polish.

Jevyetsky would do it justice without much confusion. But we obeyed the Polish orthography.

Another last name was Czech--Jedlicka. In Czech, "Yedlichka." But mangled to "jedLICKuh".

sprinkleeninow

(20,540 posts)

3. Slavic and like Hungarian, mb Polish, the accent is on the syllable not expected.