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- From: Claudio.Terrorist@ed.ac.uk (ObTerrorist)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Oh, and one more. . .
- Message-ID: <39552@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 09:01:46 GMT
- References: <k5am9hm@lynx.unm.edu> <l6oltdINNo2@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>
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- Organization: The Exploding Hot Drink
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- In article <l6oltdINNo2@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> Geoff Miller writes:
- >
- > It's amazing how few people know how to pronounce such a common name.
- > Contrary to popular belief, it's "TAW-russ," not "TORR-us." A "torus"
- > is the geometric shape described by a donut, not the name of an astro-
- > logical sign or a Ford.
-
- Popular belief in Italy is that it's pronounced more like "tourus".
- My Latin teacher also agreed on that.
-
- [ The pronounciation above is approximate, because it seems that English
- language does not contain the necessary sounds. It certainly does not
- contain the sounds to pronounce my name correctly, and the "au" is
- pronounced the same in both. There is an ObPeeve hidden somewhere in
- this brackets ]
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