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Michael Angelo Tripp-Russo michaelangelo at tripp-russo.com
Sat Mar 6 19:21:34 PST 2004


Philip Hart wrote:

>On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Mark A Mandel wrote:
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>>On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
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>>#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)
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>>In an approximation of everyday spelling, that comes to
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>>	JEN - oh - een
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>>rhyming with "ten" "go" "keen", and with the stress (the "accent") on
>>the JEN.
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>From that page and
>http://dragaera.info/encyclopedia/data/pg-test/pronunciation.html
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>Jenoine
>    /'jen-oh-i:n/
>i: life, sky
>
>I get JEN-oh-ine out of that.
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>I had JEN-oh-EEN in my head originally.
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Maybe I'm entirely wrong but I've had this in my head as well:

JEN

rhyming with "ten"

O

rhyming with "go"

INE

As in "Wine" or "Dine"