Sunday, January 27, 2008

2 comments:

Kapitano said...

I think you have lost weight.

Interesting, and surprising. Pronouncing Des Moines like the French, but Des Plains and Versailles straightforwardly like English words.

There is a place in America called Hauppauge, variously pronounced Hope-ARDJ, HOOP-aug and HOORpoordj.

In fact it's a Native American name (I forget the tribe), flitered through the first settlers who were French, then filtered again through English settlers.

And the result: HOP-og.

David said...

You're so kind. :0)

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