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- From: Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Oh, and one more. . .
- Message-ID: <39554@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 09:08:09 GMT
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- Reply-To: Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford)
- Organization: Penicuik People's Revolutionary Sheepdog Liberation Front
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- And lo, Claudio.Terrorist@ed.ac.uk (ObTerrorist) spake unto the masses saying:
- >
- > Popular belief in Italy is that it's pronounced more like "tourus".
- > My Latin teacher also agreed on that.
-
- Yeah, I'd say that's the correct pronunciation. It's certainly the one I
- use when I'm thinking about what I'm saying - if I'm not, I tend to use the
- same as Geoff.
-
- > [ 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 ]
-
- You sure about that? Isn't it the case that if you spelt your name Cloudio
- instead of Claudio, people would get considerably closer to your name than
- they do now?
-
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- Not Al Crawford - Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk
- "The water shines/A sheepdog skips across the face/A dozen times"
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