Pancras

From: Jean-Paul G. POTET
Message: 624
Date: 2003-09-03

I was in London last week.
I accompanied an old Filipina lady to St. Pancras railway station.
<Pancras> was pronounced
['° paNg "°kras] by my friend
corrected as ["°paen '°kras] by the English taxi driver.
Daniel JONES's has ["paeN °kres]. ([ae] = a + e ligature; [e] = schwa).

Jean-Paul G. POTET, FRANCE

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