Pronunciation

Pronunciation

[Florian Weimer]

How do you pronounce "Ada"?  Is this pronunciation acceptable?

  <http://cougar.eb.com/sound/a/ada00001.wav>

Re: Pronunciation

[David Hoos]

Perfect pronunciation (NOTE spelling correction, though).

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Florian Weimer" <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Pronunciation


> How do you pronounce "Ada"?  Is this pronunciation acceptable?
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>  <http://cougar.eb.com/sound/a/ada00001.wav>
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Re: Pronunciation

[Martin Dowie]

Florian Weimer wrote:
> How do you pronounce "Ada"?  Is this pronunciation acceptable?
> 
>   <http://cougar.eb.com/sound/a/ada00001.wav>

Yup, that good.

-- Martin

Re: Pronunciation

[Florian Weimer]

* Martin Dowie:

> Florian Weimer wrote:
>> How do you pronounce "Ada"?  Is this pronunciation acceptable?
>>   <http://cougar.eb.com/sound/a/ada00001.wav>
>
> Yup, that good.

Thanks.  What about "GNAT"?  Like the fly?

  <http://cougar.eb.com/sound/g/gnat0001.wav>

Re: Pronunciation

[Larry Kilgallen]

In article <87d5qg3gom.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> Thanks.  What about "GNAT"?  Like the fly?

The pronunciations I have heard for GNAT are not like the insect.
For the insect, the G is silent, whereas the pronunciations I have
heard for GNAT emphasize the G as non-silent (with the rest the same).

Re: Pronunciation

[Preben Randhol]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 04:28:35PM -0500, Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> In article <87d5qg3gom.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> 
> > Thanks.  What about "GNAT"?  Like the fly?
> 
> The pronunciations I have heard for GNAT are not like the insect.
> For the insect, the G is silent, whereas the pronunciations I have
> heard for GNAT emphasize the G as non-silent (with the rest the same).

Yes I'm pretty sure Robert Deward say Gnat with G in one of the lectures
here:

   http://www.gnat.com/aa_lectures.php

Don't have time to find it again now, but later this evening...

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Re: Pronunciation

[cdm]

>> Thanks.  What about "GNAT"?  Like the fly?
>
>The pronunciations I have heard for GNAT are not like the insect.
>For the insect, the G is silent, whereas the pronunciations I have
>heard for GNAT emphasize the G as non-silent (with the rest the same).

Yes, they use the "g".  Like GNU, pronouncing each letter.

(Why do languages bother throwing in silent letters?)

Re: Pronunciation

[David Hoos]

Because, for example, in Italian, the letter "h" is silent, but it
renders a preceding "c" or "g" hard, wheereas those letters are
soft when not followed by "h".  For example the two
Italian words "ci" and "chi" are pronounced as one could
phoneticise in English "chee", and "kee", respectively.

----- Original Message ----- 
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Subject: Re: Pronunciation


>>> Thanks.  What about "GNAT"?  Like the fly?
>>
>>The pronunciations I have heard for GNAT are not like the insect.
>>For the insect, the G is silent, whereas the pronunciations I have
>>heard for GNAT emphasize the G as non-silent (with the rest the same).
> 
> Yes, they use the "g".  Like GNU, pronouncing each letter.
> 
> (Why do languages bother throwing in silent letters?)
> 
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Re: Pronunciation

[Larry Elmore]

cdm wrote:
>>>Thanks.  What about "GNAT"?  Like the fly?
>>
>>The pronunciations I have heard for GNAT are not like the insect.
>>For the insect, the G is silent, whereas the pronunciations I have
>>heard for GNAT emphasize the G as non-silent (with the rest the same).
> 
> 
> Yes, they use the "g".  Like GNU, pronouncing each letter.
> 
> (Why do languages bother throwing in silent letters?)

Usually because pronunciation has changed while the spelling has
remained static.  Sometimes it's due to idiot grammarians "restoring"
something along those lines, too, such as with the English "debt".

--Larry

Re: Pronunciation

[Adam Beneschan]

Larry Elmore wrote:

> > (Why do languages bother throwing in silent letters?)
>
> Usually because pronunciation has changed while the spelling has
> remained static.


The German language has a number of words beginning with "kn", and in
German, both the K and the N are pronounced.  Some of those words made
their way into English, and at some point people decided it was too
bothersome to pronounce the "k", but the letter remained in the
spelling.  I think the situation is roughly the same with "gn",
although I remember more "kn" words from high-school German than "gn".
(More accurately, I remember remembering them at some point.)

                                 -- Adam

Re: Pronunciation

[Georg Bauhaus]

Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Martin Dowie:
> 
> 
>>Florian Weimer wrote:
>>
>>>How do you pronounce "Ada"?  Is this pronunciation acceptable?
>>>  <http://cougar.eb.com/sound/a/ada00001.wav>
>>
>>Yup, that good.
> 
> 
> Thanks.  What about "GNAT"?  Like the fly?
> 
>   <http://cougar.eb.com/sound/g/gnat0001.wav>

A lecture by Robert Dewar at the MIT is publicly
available as a Quicktime video,
http://www.adacore.com/aa_lectures.php

There are some more videos offering pronunciations.

Re: Pronunciation

[Preben Randhol]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 09:54:07PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> How do you pronounce "Ada"?  Is this pronunciation acceptable?
> 
>   <http://cougar.eb.com/sound/a/ada00001.wav>

Sounds like a nice English pronounciation of the name.

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