Re: "shch"

On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 22:30:51 -0000, suzmccarth <suzmccarth@...>
wrote:

> I heard this pronounced as Oogadoogoo on the radio the other day. The
> announcer was immediately replaced with another announcer who then
> corrected the pronunciation. Ouch.

In Colo. Springs, Colo., around 1961, a local radio announcer who narrated
a commercial for a restaurant mispronounced "cuisine" as "koo-sine", with
a very strong emphasis on the first syllable (short-duration vowel). I
don't know whether it was ever corrected...

> it also transliterates as the Rann of Kachchh.

Now that you mention it, I think I remember seeing that spelling as well.

> http://www.srivaishnava.20m.com/gita/itrans.htm

Very nice! Thank you.

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