[meteorite-list] pronouncing "Orgueil"

From: Philip R. Burns <pib_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:10:13 -0500
Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.2.20080430130159.02fa2310_at_pibburns.com>

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
    pib at pibburns.com
    http://www.pibburns.com/
Received on Wed 30 Apr 2008 02:10:13 PM PDT