Certainly, Willamette is an unexpected pronunciation if you aren't
familiar with the area. But is there something odd about Allende? I've
always assumed it was (approximately) ah-YEN-dey. Is it something other
than you would expect for standard Spanish?
Chris
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:07 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Pronouncing Willamette and other meteorite
names
If you are from Oregon this is probably no big surprise... According
to one of the native Willamette residents, Willamette is not
pronounced will-a-mette, at least not by her anyway, and not
according to the the dictionary either. Totally unbeknownst to
hayseeds like myself, it is actually pronounced wi-lam-it, or you can
write that with the ligature ae in place of the a. My
confession...Besides having a difficult time with Allende for some
time, I had the name Willamette wrong too. This makes me wonder what
other meteorites names I am mispronouncing.
Okay, I give up, who can help me with Berduc?
Mike in CO
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