furin Wrote:So you put more of an emphasis on the 'Ra' part?
webby Wrote:I'm anxious to read them. I just had to slow down my online buying for a little while. But Christmas is coming and I know what I'm asking Santa for this year!I know the feeling. Amazon must think I don't get out much. For 2 months AMEX had been been smokin'. Now with Santa on the way.......a KYFHO t-shirt would mean ever so much.
Ken Valentine Wrote:I do anyway.
RA-sa-lom.
Just as I thought of the opposite in THE KEEP as being pronounced MO-la-sar.
Ken V.
furin Wrote:That's the same way for me. The reason I do that is because 'Ra' and 'Mo' seem to have more umph and a stronger sense of sound than the other parts of the name.
Ken Valentine Wrote:I agree, It would feel awkward any other way.
Ken V.
Ken Valentine Wrote:That's what I believe it to be as well. For another example, CURAÇAO -- the island in the caribbean -- would be pronounced Curasao. Koo-rah-SAO.
So I imagine the correct pronunciation would be Yeni-SAIR-ee.
Maggers Wrote:I have a memory, and that's always a dubious place to start for me, of Jack trying to figure out the word "yeniceri," which he'd overheard, and in his mind he alikened it to words with a soft "c" sound, more like the "yen i sair ee" sound that Ken V mentioned. I could be wrong, though.
Ken Valentine Wrote:I do anyway.
RA-sa-lom.
Just as I thought of the opposite in THE KEEP as being pronounced MO-la-sar.
Ken V.