[meteorite-list] pronouncing "Orgueil"

[Zelimir Gabelica]

Hi Phil,

Your pronunciation for both Orgueil and L'Aigle is just perfect! You 
possibly doin't speak French anymore but, at least, your accent is intact.
Perhaps that's the way to progress (page with recorded pronunciations). And 
yes, IMCA could for sure help.

Zelimir

A 13:10 30/04/2008 -0500, Philip R. Burns a écrit :
>At 12:24 PM 4/30/2008, Zelimir Gabelica wrote:
>>Not so.
>>If you pronounce it "or gay", nobody will understand here (although I 
>>know that whenever Bob brings along some Orgueil, it is sold before unwrapped!)
>>
>>Basing on pronouncing dyphtongs in French (last link in Darren's post - 
>>see below; thanks Darren!), it comes to:
>>
>>"Org œj"
>>
>>as in the wikipedia example: /œj/ as in feuille "leaf"
>
>Some years ago (2002?) when the question of meteorite pronunciations came 
>up, I started a page with French pronunciations:
>
>         http://www.pibburns.com/catastro/metprono.htm
>
>While I grew up speaking French, I would not claim my pronunciation is the 
>best.  I don't speak French anymore except when visiting relatives in France.
>
>Someone else started up a page with the pronunciations for Polish 
>meteorites around that same time.  I don't recall who it was, but I found 
>that page helpful.
>
>Perhaps the IMCA should undertake a mini-project to collect pronunciations 
>from native speakers.
>
>
>-- Philip R. "Pib" Burns
>    pib at pibburns.com
>    http://www.pibburns.com/
>
>
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