[LMB] (chat) Ijada

[Mark A. Mandel]

Oh, GOODY! That's how I've been pronouncing it all along.

In general, I've been making Ibran
 j sound like "s" in pleasure = "j" in "Jacques"
 x "" "sh" -- which it did in Spanish a few centuries ago, which is why
the French spell the name "Don Quichotte"

-- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological
Busybody
 aka Mark A. Mandel

--- Lois McMaster Bujold <lbujold at myinfmail.com> wrote:

> Hiya --
> 
>     Just to settle a bet, here...
> 
>     Ijada is pronounced: i as in "bit", ja as in "Jacques", da as in 
> "dah" or the Russian word for yes.  Emphasis on the second syllable.
> 
>     The j in Brajar is pronounced the same way.
> 
>     Ijada is Spanish for jade, or close to it.  In the first draft, I 
> started out calling the poor woman "Jadais", a name I dimly thought I 
> was making up till I finally remembered where I'd seen it before.  Or 
> rather, I didn't, but Pat did, and saved me.
> 
>     Ta, L.
> 
> 
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