[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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