<S.Tarasovas@...>" <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:
> >while "Western European" aspirated H- gives G-.
> This practice has changed since the middle of the 20th century, so
> the newer borrowings have <x>.
But my students in Moscow told me about a newspaper article with the
headline 'Dirty Garry', referring to Velikobritaniya's Prince Harry,
and his supposed pot-smoking!
Gitler amuses, but Gavaii had me quite confused for a while, until
Gonolulu was mentioned. And yet the WWII memorial plaque in the
Kreml' records a certain Eyzjen_kh_auer Duayt Deyvid for the SShA
[along with Montgomeri Bernard Lou, Velikobritaniya; Rolya-Zhimerskiy
Mikhail, Pol'sha; Tito Iosip Broz, YUgoslaviya; and Korol' Mikhai 1,
Rumyniya].
>AFAIK,
> <Xeléna> (or <Geléna>) occures only to render Polish <Helena>.
I once taught an Estonian/Ruthenian lady by the name of Xelina
Fyedorchuk, but I think her name was a deliberate exoticism on begalf
of her parents. [She told me her Rusynski father had been
a 'shepherd of cows', and was quite taken with my suggestion that he
had been a cowboy all along...]
Ben