Sami again
A. Vine
andrea.vine@Sun.COM
Tue, 19 Feb 2002 16:01:06 -0800
Right, certainly every time I and all of the English speaking world need to know
how to pronounce a word we haven't seen before, we immediately consult the
Oxford dictionary.
Yessiree, Bob. That's what every last one of us does. Without exception.
Michael Everson wrote:
>
> At 11:47 -0800 2002-02-19, A. Vine wrote:
> >
> > > Sami would on the face of it rhyme with swami,
> >
> >Maybe if paired as such people might see it that way; but on its
> >own, in the US or among any of the British I have ever met (or live
> >with), it is much more
> >likely to come out "Sammy".
>
> The New Oxford Dictionary gives [sa:mi] and [swa:mi] as
> pronunciations of those two words "Sami" and "swami". [sa:mi] would
> be the same as Norwegian "samisk" [sa:mi(sk)] and Finnish "saami"
> [sa:mi]
>