Pronunciation of names is tough. The topic about AUE posters' ... Breathnach. And should the "h" in Bob "Cunningham" be pronounced? How should the "Bob" in "Bob Cunningham" be pronounced? Iwasaki

Whenever I've asked a Dutch person to pronounce Gogh it ... answer... in fact I would be surprised if there isn't. Here we are: http://www.nga.gov/education/vgt pronun.htm Not only does the Dutch pronunciation sound completely different

example of Whoa. "Was" is pronounced by me and presumably by you ... happens to be a sort of phonemic respelling of "was"). Well, this brings us back to what I was saying about phonetic spelling sometimes being mistaken for eye

As long as the speech of the speaker in question ... "wuz" and "lissen," we're talking about anotherexample of phonetic spelling. Whoa. "Was" is pronounced by me and presumably by you like "wuz", but

As long as the speech of the speaker in question is not represented with such spellings as "wuz" and "lissen," we're talking about another example of phonetic spelling. Whoa. "Was" is pronounced by me and

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 20:37:08 +0100, "Jonathan Jordan" (Email Removed) said: All true, but whatever it is will probably be ... the vowelthey use in "saw", it's pretty clear and unambiguous. I don't see how you can say

I'm forwarding this posting, which was originally posted to alt.english.usage, to alt.usage.english because it has remarks in it that I hope will be of interest to readers of that newsgroup. I've suppressed the identification of the AEU

(I am posting these Intros for Donna Richoux while she is away. Maria.) Last Revised 2003-02-27 (27 Feb 2003) ~~ Mini-FAQ on Spelling ~~ There are longer answers, with more examples, for most of these items in the full AUE FAQ (see end). Many of