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in reply to a message by Anneza
Isn't Thierry pronounced somewhere between "Teary" and "Terry"? I was under the impression that the 'Th' was pronounced as a hard T, in which case it wouldn't make sense for it to be spelled Theary if it was overheard.
♦ Chrisell ♦
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.
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I was thinking more of the spelling, as most languages don't have a sound like the English -th-, and when they do, it gets represented by different letters.
Do you know about Vietnamese sounds, Chrisell? They certainly have -th- appearing in their spelling system, but I don't know how they pronounce it (plus, they were a French colony for a while and it's a sound that gives the French enormous difficulty). And indigenous South African languages can be very confusing because they have a voiced and an unvoiced t, represented as t and th but not pronounced like the English th - so Thabo Mbeki's first name sounds like TAH-boh.
It'd also be helpful to know where the labelled lady originated from!
Do you know about Vietnamese sounds, Chrisell? They certainly have -th- appearing in their spelling system, but I don't know how they pronounce it (plus, they were a French colony for a while and it's a sound that gives the French enormous difficulty). And indigenous South African languages can be very confusing because they have a voiced and an unvoiced t, represented as t and th but not pronounced like the English th - so Thabo Mbeki's first name sounds like TAH-boh.
It'd also be helpful to know where the labelled lady originated from!
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Where does SA get it's name?
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