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Subject:	Re: Adelais pronunciation
Author:	Miranda (Authenticated as Randee15)
Date:	February 6, 2006 at 3:08:48 PM
Reply to:	Adelais pronunciation by Melina

Well, Adélaïde is today pr. a-day-la-EED in (Anglo-)French... so I would give an educated guess that Adelais (Adélaïs?) could've been pr. a-day-la-EES. Contract a-day-la-EES and you'll get a-LEES, which is the modern French. pr. of Alice according to BtN.

But I still could be way, way off though.

Miranda

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Messages in this thread:

Adelais pronunciation - Melina Feb 6 2006, 2:05:20 PM
- Re: Adelais pronunciation - Miss Claire Feb 7 2006, 9:00:05 AM
  - I would have assumed it was spelt AdalaÃƒÂ¯s - Ylva Feb 7 2006, 5:35:17 PM
    - What happened? - Ylva Feb 7 2006, 5:38:45 PM
  - your siggie - Briallen Feb 7 2006, 10:07:45 AM
    - They're punctuation pets . . . - Chrisell Feb 7 2006, 5:14:39 PM
- Re: Adelais pronunciation - MariaNikolaievnaRomanova Feb 7 2006, 1:35:43 AM
- Re: Adelais pronunciation - arockster Feb 6 2006, 8:22:04 PM
- Re: Adelais pronunciation - Miranda Feb 6 2006, 3:08:48 PM
- ad-eh-lace? - Briallen Feb 6 2006, 2:52:38 PM

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