On 1/28/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, unless you are French. Then you don't pronounce "H". The remaining > letters are pronounced according to the Règlements de l'Académie.
Fair enough. I wouldn't want to be culturally insensitive, and should have said that my statement was only directed at people who were speaking some dialect of English. > On the other hand, the name "Chevalier" is pronounced as it should be. > I can pronounce my own name better than more or less any other American, but -- sadly -- quite a bit worse than anyone who actually grew up speaking French. Cheers, Tim -- Tim Chevalier * http://cs.pdx.edu/~tjc * Often in error, never in doubt "Now I'm trying to get back to what I know that I should be / hoping to God that I was just a temporary absentee" -- Gerard McHugh _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
