Okay, so how is "Rubens" pronounced in Flemish? Maybe there's a glottal stop in there. Or how do the Walloons pronounce it?
One of my friends, widely travelled in Europe, ragged on me for pronouncing Macedonia with a soft "c", when they themselves didn't pronounce it that way. I asked him how many countries' names he pronounced exactly as the inhabitants did, and he subsided. Of course, these days you pronounce it "FIE-rom".
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Date: 2005-10-07 04:27 pm (UTC)One of my friends, widely travelled in Europe, ragged on me for pronouncing Macedonia with a soft "c", when they themselves didn't pronounce it that way. I asked him how many countries' names he pronounced exactly as the inhabitants did, and he subsided. Of course, these days you pronounce it "FIE-rom".