On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 yaga at berkano.pair.com wrote: #> "I particularly want to hear Steve say "Hwdf'rjaanci", or however #it's spelled." #> I think that it's supposed to sound like a sneeze. I guess that you #would have to ask Sethra. Warbi #In a polyglot of Welsh and Hungarian, I was thinking "Who'd if ranky" #with stresses on the first and third syllables. #And it kinda sounds like a sneeze if you keep the "i" in "if" flat, #and stress the first even more than the third syllable. I say it approx. as hwood FRYAAN tsee with the vowel of the first syllable very short, and FRYAAN as all one syllable; I'm using the "y" as a consonant, not a vowel, as in "nyooz" ("news" in some pronunciations). -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel