Guest guest Posted August 28, 2002 Report Share Posted August 28, 2002 In a message dated 8/28/02 3:53:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time, s.fisher22@... writes: > Well, i like to be able to pronounce what i eat, so thanks for the mini > swedish lesson. for the longest time i used to pronounce " kefir " as > " keefur. " then i downloaded the pronunciation from dom's web site and was > dismayed to find out it's pronounced " kefeer " accent on second sylable. my > former pronunciation became fossilized though, and i still sometimes > pronounce it that way. i find that just about everyone else mispronounces it > the same way. maybe sally could put a pronunciation guide in the next NT Well, I for one am going to keep pronouncing it keefur I think we should revolt and make that the new pronunciation. chris ____ " What can one say of a soul, of a heart, filled with compassion? It is a heart which burns with love for every creature: for human beings, birds, and animals, for serpents and for demons. The thought of them and the sight of them make the tears of the saint flow. And this immense and intense compassion, which flows from the heart of the saints, makes them unable to bear the sight of the smallest, most insignificant wound in any creature. Thus they pray ceaselessly, with tears, even for animals, for enemies of the truth, and for those who do them wrong. " --Saint Isaac the Syrian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 28, 2002 Report Share Posted August 28, 2002 > Well, i like to be able to pronounce what i eat, so thanks for the mini > swedish lesson. for the longest time i used to pronounce " kefir " as > " keefur. " then i downloaded the pronunciation from dom's web site and was > dismayed to find out it's pronounced " kefeer " accent on second sylable. my > former pronunciation became fossilized though, and i still sometimes > pronounce it that way. i find that just about everyone else mispronounces it > the same way. maybe sally could put a pronunciation guide in the next NT Well, I for one am going to keep pronouncing it keefur I think we should revolt and make that the new pronunciation. ----------->haha! you too, eh? oh, and i forgot to mention that it's a *rolling* " r " kind of like the hebrew " resh " that comes at the end of a word. or at least dom's pronunciation sounded that way to me. which makes it that much more different than the pronunciation that rhymes with " reefer. " Suze Fisher Web Design & Development http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3shjg/ mailto:s.fisher22@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 28, 2002 Report Share Posted August 28, 2002 > or at least dom's pronunciation sounded that way to me. which makes > it that much more different than the pronunciation that rhymes > with " reefer. " > Hmmm, my own deeply ingrained mispronunciation rhymes with heifer. Now *that's* probably some kind of weird midwestern thing...combined, of course, with the fact that I can't think of any similar spellings that result in a word that rhymes with reefer. ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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