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echo: fidonews
to: BJRN FELTEN
from: KEES VAN EETEN
date: 2015-09-16 18:16:00
subject: Various US city names

Hello Björn!

16 Sep 15 17:56, you wrote to mark lewis:

 BF>    LOL! Yeah, it's a real PITA when you cannot deduce from the
 BF> pronunciation how a word should be spelled. In Swedish (and other Germanic
 BF> languages) that's rarely the case. Especially in British English it's
 BF> almost the norm.

 My natine language is of german origin as well, but I never guessed how
 to pronounce Ljungskile, nor can I pronounce it properly.
 The same goes for Roskilde in Denmark and Kirkeness in Norway. And to add
 a few, how about the proper way to pronounce Copenhagen and Gotenburg.

 I will leave Scheveningen, Schoorl and Schoonhoven as an excersize for you.

 I have no problems with Leicester, Worchester an Reading. ;)

Kees

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