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Re: [OT] RobWords @ Edinburg Fringe Festival

From Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.usage.english
Subject Re: [OT] RobWords @ Edinburg Fringe Festival
Date 2026-08-11 13:26 +0100
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Le 11/08/2026 à 11:36, Alan Mackenzie a écrit :
> 
> Where I live, it gets pronounced "Ay-din-boorg".  It took me some while
> to stop trying to correct people.  If they're wrong pronouncing it thus,
> then the entire English speaking world is even worse pronouncing
> Nürnberg as "Nyoor-m-b'rg".


I think we must be allowed to tailor names to our language, and extend 
the same privilege to foreigners. Should we pronounce 'Paris' the French 
way, say 'Deutschland' not 'Germany', call China 'Zhōngguó'?

Plaster of Paree? Perhaps not.

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[OT] RobWords @ Edinburg Fringe Festival occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-08-11 08:54 +0200
  Re: [OT] RobWords @ Edinburg Fringe Festival John Armstrong <jja@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2026-08-11 08:53 +0100
    Re: [OT] RobWords @ Edinburg Fringe Festival athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-08-11 09:30 +0000
      Re: [OT] RobWords @ Edinburg Fringe Festival Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> - 2026-08-11 10:36 +0000
        Re: [OT] RobWords @ Edinburg Fringe Festival Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-08-11 13:26 +0100
    Re: [OT] RobWords @ Edinburg Fringe Festival richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-08-11 09:41 +0000
      Re: [OT] RobWords @ Edinburg Fringe Festival Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2026-08-11 11:42 +0100
      Re: [OT] RobWords @ Edinburg Fringe Festival Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-08-11 11:52 +0100
        Re: [OT] RobWords @ Edinburg Fringe Festival Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-08-11 12:03 +0100
        Re: [OT] RobWords @ Edinburg Fringe Festival "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-08-11 17:56 +0100
      Re: [OT] RobWords @ Edinburg Fringe Festival occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-08-12 10:01 +0200

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