On Oct 1, 2012, at 10:42 PM, Matthew Crisp <[email protected]> wrote:
> My first instinct is that it's just Mill-amber, but given Kelewan's > mixture of cultural influences for names, I guess "Meal-y/j-amber" > (When I say it with i as an EE sound, the l runs in and makes a sort > of y-ish sound) might also be correct? (especially given Amber is > arabic and i in Arabic is usually pronounced with EE sound, instead of > IH) Honestly the second variant *sounds* better to me. > > I was a bit surprised it wasn't on the pronunciation page. > It wasn't? M(ǝ)-lam-ber If the diacritic swarabakti (upside down e) didn't come through, it's a non-specific vowel sound, so it's kind of like "ma," with the a being almost swallowed, an "uh" sound. So Ma-lam-ber. Best, R.E.F. ---- www.crydee.com Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by stupidity.
