[WikiEN-l] Fwd: Suggestion: Pronunciation on all names

[Mark Wagner]

On 1/18/08, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18/01/2008, Carl Beckhorn <cbeckhorn at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:22:13PM +0000, Andrew Gray wrote:
> > > Names and other proper nouns have a "right" pronunciation
> > > regardless of where you are, though, so we can get away with it
> >
> > If that were true, the situation would be much easier. It isn't
> > uncommon for pronunciation of a name to vary significantly from
> > one dialect to another.
>
> Yes, but we can argue that the one they themselves use is the "right" one :-)

"Birmingham"

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Mark
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