Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Thu, 19 Mar 92 00:08 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA27842; Thu, 19 Mar 92 00:03:39 EST Received: from rutgers.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA04086; Wed, 18 Mar 92 23:40:36 -0500 Received: from cbmvax.UUCP by rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) with UUCP id AA24437; Wed, 18 Mar 92 23:01:39 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA11742; Wed, 18 Mar 92 22:44:15 EST Received: from sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA11341; Wed, 18 Mar 92 21:34:22 -0500 Received: from bradford.ac.uk by sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk via JANET with NIFTP id <12585-0@sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>; Wed, 18 Mar 1992 18:37:20 +0000 From: CJ FINE Message-Id: <19927.9203181833@mail.bradford.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Place names To: cowan Date: Wed, 18 Mar 92 18:33:20 GMT Cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban list) In-Reply-To: ; from "John Cowan" at Mar 11, 92 11:22 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Thu Mar 19 00:08:25 1992 X-From-Space-Address: cbmvax!uunet!bradford.ac.uk!C.J.Fine Cowan: > > If you really want the "local pronunciation", I hear it as "ln,n". To me, the "d" is always there except in some distant rural dialects. But there is a strong first vowel which is neither "a" nor "y" in lojban. The second vowel is reduced to "n". I still favour "london" for visual recognisability. > > belorus - belorusa: la minsk > > Which way do we go on belo- vs. bela-? I have been seeing "Belarus" lately. > /Bjelarosija/ is Russian, /Belarus/ is Belarussian. Colin