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Flying Dragons

Sat Mar 6 18:01:47 PST 2004


On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Mark A Mandel wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>
> #Joy Jennifer Nicholson <jjnichol at MIT.EDU> writes:
> #
> #> also, as a side question, how is Jenoine pronounced, anyway?  It's not on
> #> the pronunciation list at the beginning of Jhereg.....
> #
> #<http://dragaera.info/encyclopedia/data/pg-test/#LETTERJ> (no sound
> #file, but we do show how to pronounce the word)
>
> In an approximation of everyday spelling, that comes to
>
> 	JEN - oh - een
>
> rhyming with "ten" "go" "keen", and with the stress (the "accent") on
> the JEN.

>From that page and
http://dragaera.info/encyclopedia/data/pg-test/pronunciation.html
:

Jenoine
    /'jen-oh-i:n/
i: life, sky

I get JEN-oh-ine out of that.

I had JEN-oh-EEN in my head originally.