[LMB] An attack of limericks

Meg Justus mmegaera at nwlink.com
Thu May 1 19:44:00 BST 2008


Pete:
> Nicol is Scottish, not French, a form of Nicholas (which, as you notice, 
> is accented on the first syllable).  French doesn't have a strong stress 
> in words, anyway; the two syllables of "Nicole" would have almost 
> identical stresses.  The audio version may, after all, be wrong.

Yes, but for those of us who have the audio version's pronunciation 
well-established in our brains, that's not much help.

Oh, well.

Megaera 



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