Re: Who is zimbra?
Re: Who is zimbra?
- Subject: Re: Who is zimbra?
- From: "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:18:56 -0400
- Thread-topic: Who is zimbra?
"Tim Mansour" wrote:
> On 30/07/2008, at 7:47 am, Philip Aker wrote:
>
>> Up here in Vancouver (not currently being rocked by earthquakes),
>> the term is "björked" and pronounced "byorked" (one syllable).
>
> Although it's more correctly pronounced "byerked" ... as in the
> singer. The dieresis flattens the vowel. BTW, are we off topic here?
That's not a dieresis in "Björked".
A dieresis is the double-dot mark over a vowel when it is consecutive to
another of the same vowels, but pronounced differently. In German, the
vowels don't need to be consecutive, it's just the umlaut that says
"pronounce this differently than normal".
The dieresis is a common preference of hoity-toity writers, who like to
write "coördinate" and such. (I believe the New Yorker may employ that
editorial style guideline, but I can recall right now. I read it often.)
--
Gary
Nebel...
"cow orkers" is a beautiful contribution.
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