Text 21179, 75 rader
Skriven 2011-07-23 17:18:30 av Stewart Arnett (3:772/100)
  Kommentar till text 21168 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
Ärende: Erroneous English Assumptions
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Hello Roy.

22 Jul 11 15:54, you wrote to me:

 RW> 22 Jul 11 17:11, Stewart Arnett wrote to Roy Witt:

 SA>> I've deleted the paragraph (senior finger moment)

 RW> You saw that finger, eh...sorry, tried to keep it low key.

 SA>> but I pronounce iroquois as it is said on howjsay.com

 RW> ai-ro-kwah?

No iroquis

 SA>> I have never heard the pronunciation freedictionary has for the
 SA>> English version they probably have never heard it pronounced
 SA>> there.

 RW> The proper pronunciation of the last syllable is the same as the fish,
 RW> koi.

yup

 SA>> It is Native American isn't it?

 RW> Iroqois is the group name of native American tribes (Mohawk, Oneida,
 RW> Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca peoples), but not the pronunciation.

thanks

 SA>> Not French, hence we say it much the same way as you do,

 RW> Not.

 SA>> probably as it came back to us from our returning colonists after
 SA>> the war.

 RW> Red-coats weren't colonists.

The ones without red coats were and a lot came back..

 SA>> Our maybe it was how my mates and I heard it in the westerns at
 SA>> the cinema when I was a youngster.

 RW> Without the kwah?

No with the koi

 SA>>>> lever hence leverage as against leeverage, so for where you are
 SA>>>> it is correct to say leverage, damn French again ;)

 RW>>> I don't see how you can get leever out of leaver...Even Princess
 RW>>> Lea pronounces her name lay-ya...

 SA>> Rymnes with Beaver and I think that is the way the American
 SA>> pronunciation is, same as our way. ;)

 RW> Nope. You say Bee-vah, we say Bee-ver.

I don;t I say lee-ver as in Bieber.

 SA>> Have fun...

 RW> Always.

Good, doesn't always work though, I went to go out to the yacht today and blew
up the rubber duckey and it had a hole in it and went down again. Don't you
hate it when that happens ;(

Stewart

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