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On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:18:47 +0100, Jeremy Double
wrote: Neil Williams wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:48:52 +0100, Guy Gorton wrote: Tourists and natives alike are asked in this country to pronounce the new name for Abbey as San-tan-daire. I asked the staff whether they would look at the cal-en-daire on the wall, and whether I could ten-daire a 5 pound note. Sensible answers were prohibited by management. Presumably, though, pronouncing it as "Santanduh" would be as incorrect as the other examples in this thread. It is after all a Spanish company named after a Spanish place. OTOH, in English we don't pronounce Paris as "Paree", many people pronounce Bologne as "Bolloin", we've changed the name of Mnchen to Munich, Kln to Cologne, ???????to Moscow, etc... so as far as I can see, we can pronounce Santander any way we like in England. Exactly! And I do. San-tandr in typical drop-the-last-bit English. Guy Gorton |