On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Don Smith wrote: > Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > >Hi! > > > >Since English is not my native language I was wondering how do you > >pronounce "Portage". With two stresses like two different words > >"port age" or with one stress like in "sausage"?
The pronunciation is normally the French pronunciation for the word, although I think in English we lose an accent somewhere. So the word is pronounced with two separate stresses, por - tage, but the age is pronounced more like auzh. English doesn't really have anything like it, which is odd because it IS an English word now. > > > >Just curious ;-) > > > >Maybe we need an audio version from Daniel Robbins with > >"Hello, I'm Daniel Robbins and I pronounce Portage as Portage." :-) This could be a good idea... > It is por tauge so yes, like in sausage. I am Canadian and Americans > may say it different. They say we have a accent but I do not know what > that it aboot, eh? :) I'm a Canadian, too, but it seems we disagree in either the pronunciation of portage or sausage. When I says sausage, the first syllable has a much stronger stress than the second, and the 'g' is pronounced with a 'j' sound. The only similarity to portage is how many syllables it has... > (Goes back to his Tim Horton's coffee) -- Craig West Ph: (416) 567-1491 | It's not a bug, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | It's a feature... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
