"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 6/12/06 13:15, in article
ws.net, "Sue"
wrote:


"Des Higgins" wrote
"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote Many people say TYnus which
is probably "wrong" and is a very Anglophone pronunciation;

Even with an Irish line of ancestry I stills say Ty-nus.
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How about lichen?
Some same litchen but I always found liken to be much more manly and
forceful; it is possible that both are wrong anyway.

This thread reminds me of an American woman discussing recipes, talking
about about adding some ahrEGG-ano. It took me a few seconds to realise
what she meant.

Correct though but with more of an 'o' sound at the start. My Italian
mother in law used to go mad at the way the English pronounce it OregAAAno
and say Pinokio and Michael Angelo. ;-)


And more labiatae: BAYsil instead of BAHsil is very American (bahs-ill-ikko
in Italian?)
Pronouncing A like AY in Hay is very Anglophone and especially in US.
In most Euro languages I know A is just Ahh unless you stick dots or funny
bits around it to change it.
In German you get Ay from an A with an umlaut (2 dots) and some of these
umlaut pronuncaitions seem to have gone into English but only in some words.

Your Oregano pronunciation has me guilty now. I would have said the US
or-egg-ano was wrong so live and learn.


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