[meteorite-list] Pronouncing Willamette and other meteoritenames

[Darren Garrison]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:18:37 -0500, you wrote:


>The great dictionarianist Samuel Johnson

>described it as the sound of a goose hissing!

>I suppose it depends on how angry the Welsh

>speaker is at English dictionarianists...


What I meant by that was not that I expected the "real" pronounciation of Lloyd
to bey "Yoyd", but just that I usually-- for a word I haven't heard pronounced
aloud-- "hear" it as following the "typical" English pronounciation for the
spelling unless conciously thinking about the country of origin.  Before
tonight, it simply never crossed my mind to pronounce Allende with a "y".  (And
I'm probably even worse off with names in languages even more distant from
English).  Never mind things like Australia's Millivanilli meteorite.