At 12:24 PM 4/30/2008, Zelimir Gabelica wrote:
Not so.
If you pronounce it "or gay", nobody will
understand here (although I know that whenever
Bob brings along some Orgueil, it is sold before unwrapped!)
Basing on pronouncing dyphtongs in French (last
link in Darren's post - see below; thanks Darren!), it comes to:
"Org j"
as in the wikipedia example: /j/ as in feuille "leaf"
Some years ago (2002?) when the question of
meteorite pronunciations came up, I started a page with French pronunciations:
http://www.pibburns.com/catastro/metprono.htm
While I grew up speaking French, I would not
claim my pronunciation is the best. I don't
speak French anymore except when visiting relatives in France.
Someone else started up a page with the
pronunciations for Polish meteorites around that
same time. I don't recall who it was, but I found that page helpful.
Perhaps the IMCA should undertake a mini-project
to collect pronunciations from native speakers.
-- Philip R. "Pib" Burns
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pibburns.com/
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