On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:06:45 -0700, Radika Kesavan
wrote:

dave weil wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:37:10 -0700, Radika Kesavan
wrote:

... http://howtopronounce.com/body_press_releases.html
http://howtopronounce.com/body_about.html

Hope this helps.


And since we've been talking about Trier lately, I wanted to point
out that, although most Americans seem to pronounce the name
tree-AIR, the actual pronunciation is something like Tree-ur, with
only a little more emphasis on the first syllable (but not much).

And here I thought it was pronounced "tri-ayeh" or something!

I forgot to mention the slight trill on the first r.

Of course, the branch of my fanily has always mispronounced our last
name (I'm a wheel, not a while or vile if you want to be exact).

As in Kurt Weill. Or do I have this wrong too.

Nope, that's correct. Vile it is.

Well, some might think I'm vile g...

You know that I don't, I am sure of this.

And here is a little OT 'secret' - Mack is the one male friend who is
absolutely unafraid of his feminine side; the only person, let alone
man, who boldly declares his intense interest in "The Bold and the
Beautiful." Alas, it is too feminine a sopa opera for my masculine side,
which prefers "The Guiding Light" to B&B g. But Mack is incurably
devoted to B&B, alas.

Frankly, I find B&B hopelessly maudlin *and* overblown at the same
time; cliched, silly and overacted. It's just plain silly (but that's
just my opinion). It's like watching a train wreck.

Give me the often-times tongue-in-cheek General Hospital. Or even the
portentious Young and the Restless.

I counterbalance this by my abiding interest in Highlander chuckle.