...but it is sometimes neVAYduh, MO (with either mizzuREE or mizzurUH
trailing along)
Aaron J. Rabushka
arabus...@austin.rr.com
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From: "MSO" <m...@sti.net>
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Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Finale] [OT] plural of rubato = rubati?
I would have to agree with Dalvin re: the pronunciation of "RO-dee-oh."
There's nothing ignorant about it. Y'ever been out west? Regional
pronunciation does not connote ignorance; after all: the word has been
virtually re-defined as a uniquely Western US event over a
century-and-a-half. Not the same as its Spanish antecedent - event OR
pronunciation. It's RO-dee-oh! Just as it's Ne-VAA-da and NEVER
Ne-VAH-da!
And I would dare say that anyone - specially any 'them green dude Eastern
fellers - even that-there Copland-feller (who I understand were born in
NOO YORK CITY) who pronounces it any way OTHER than "RO-dee-oh" don't know
what he's talkin' about!!
Although: I DO smile when I write that, pard'ner!
And now: hunkerin' back down in the dark.
Les Marsden
(209) 966-6988 (H)
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County
----- Original Message -----
From: "dalvin boone" <dalvin.bo...@avenuebroadband.com>
To: <finale@shsu.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 6:42 PM
Subject: RE: [Finale] [OT] plural of rubato = rubati?
John,
I disagree. RO-dee-oh is an American pronunciation of a Spanish
(Mexican)
word. There are many examples of such borrowed words that are not
commonly
pronounced as they would be in Mexico or Spain: "Animas" as in the
Animas
River; Santa Fe, Santa Rosa, Amarillo, Lamesa, Tucumcari, chile (chili)
etc.
-----Original Message-----
From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf
Of
John Howell
As do the feminine "alumna" and the plural "alumni," which are still
universally used and understood. Syllabi is commonly used in the
academy, although it ALMOST seems pretentious.
And then there are those pesky words that seem to be in the middle of
their transition: data (always plural) and datum (singular); and
even worse, media (always plural) and medium (singular).
For some borrowed and assimilated words singers have to make choices
(unless a composer has made it perfectly clear): ro-DEH-oh (Spanish)
or RO-dee-oh (ignorant American!).
John
--
John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music
Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240
Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034
(mailto:john.how...@vt.edu)
http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html
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of jazz musicians.
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