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Subject: Thank you very much
Author: Lumia   (Authenticated as Lumia)
Date: April 2, 2008 at 5:43:21 AM
Reply to: Re: Pronunciation of Nike in English by acquamarina
The fact that Nike was a unknown name for most of the English speakers could explain the duplicity in pronunciations: some dialects treated it as other names and words ending in -ike and some other dialects as other Greek names ending in -e.

Lumia
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