Re: Who is zimbra?
Re: Who is zimbra?
- Subject: Re: Who is zimbra?
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:51:25 -0700
On Jul 31, 2008, at 12:51 PM, Philip Aker wrote:
On 2008-07-30, at 13:27:52 , Mark J. Reed wrote:
Up here in Vancouver (not currently being rocked by
earthquakes), the term is "björked" and pronounced
"byorked" (one syllable).
[…]
In Icelandic (and hence in the singer Björk's name), there is no
general umlaut; ö is actually a separate letter, and the only one
whose form appears to have such a "diacritical mark". The same
letter is written ø in Norwegian.
I'm not talkin' Icelandic. I'm talking local English colloquialism.
Like the "crüe" in Motley Crüe is English (ain't it?), and we
pronounce it "kru". But björked is pronounced as above. There's no
particular reason -- whoever got there first.
Use of umlauts in band names is a topic unto itself. I was surprised
to discover that it has a wikipedia page devoted to it: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_umlaut
>. I love wikipedia.
--Chris Nebel
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