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Don G.
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 Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 5:11 pm Post subject: Any ballet afficionados here? Pronunciation help needed. |
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My usual resources aren't being very helpful. I'm fine with Petrushka, but getting mixed or no results with the following:
• Is it Michel Fokine or Mikhail Fokin (me-SHELL or me-KYLE) (fo-KEEN or fo-KYNE) or none of the above?
And it certainly doesn't help when I find this: Michel (Mikhail) Fokine
• Russian pianist Irina (eye-REE-na or ear-EE-na) Elkina (el-KEE-na or el-KYE-na)
Thanks for any thoughts. |
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Don G.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Ha! Who needs Google or Wikipedia when we have Liz!? (there really needs to be a way to make an interrobang with a keyboard.) Many thanks to our resident international VO, Ms Liz, for her phone call and quick answers. We already know what a great resource you are, Liz, but that's what I call 'super-service'! |
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Lizden
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| Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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Awwww, thanks Don. 
I'm just paying back just a fraction of what I have gotten here.
Glad to be of service! 
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Scott Pollak
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| Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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This isn't ballet, but as Atlanta's NPR voice, I often have to look up some pretty bizarre names (why can't any of these savants have names like 'Smith' or 'Williams'???), and this site is helpful for operatic tongue-twisters:
http://www.evermore.com/azo/sounds/pronounce.php3
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Lizden
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| Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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Scott, this is GREAT! Thanks for this!
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SilverSurfer3001
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The worst is trying to pronounce place names from Texas.
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Deirdre
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| Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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You mean like "Nacogdoches"?
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Lee Gordon
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| Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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I love those -- with a little sour cream on top.
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schrecster
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| Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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| SilverSurfer3001 wrote: | | The worst is trying to pronounce place names from Texas. |
like Humble, TX. Pronounced UMBLE, (the H is silent)
Or Sacshe (sac-see) my realtor said to say "sexy" with a Sean Connery accent and that would be the correct pronunciation
but you are right, there are a lot of weird names for towns here in TX, these are just a couple I can remember off the top of my head |
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CC Heim
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| I'm here in College Station... that's pretty durned easy ta say! |
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glittlefield
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| Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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Bah. Get out a map of Maine and have at it.
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bobsouer
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Since we rarely have reason to talk about them here in the USA, I would suggest anyone interested in some really hard place names take a long look at Wales. Or Finland. Now you're talking.
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