Herb (Was Re: Harry and Hairy - The Difference.)

[sistermagpie]

> > montims: 
> 
>  > OK - why is the th in Anthony pronounced "th", where Thomas is 
pronounced 
> 
>  "t"?  You can't imagine how strange it is for a Brit to hear 
Americans 
> 
>  talking about AnTHony Hopkins...  Oh yes, and Bernard is prounced 
berNARD, 
> 
>  where Leonard is pronounced LEnnud, and leopard as LEpud.  In 
England, a St 
> 
>  Bernard dog is BERnud... 
> 
>   
> 
> Kemper now:
> 
> How is 'leotard' pronounced?

Magpie:
ber-NARD
LEN-nerd
LEP-erd
LEE-uh-tard

With Anthony, while it did first surprise me to hear An-tony with 
no "th" and then realize that was just standard appreciation, it also 
makes me think of the way it was pronounced by many kids in my high 
school, which was basically: ANT-n-nee. (Heavy on the nasal for 
that "A" in the first syllable. That's the closest way I could think 
to write it.)

I was also recently talking to somebody about the name Sebastian and 
how she didn't like the US pronounciation. I thought it was the same 
pronounciation, but in the US we generally don't pronounces "t's" in 
the middle of words and if we do pronounce the T as an actual T, we 
then can't open our mouth again for the rest of the word.

So instead of Seb-AS-ti-en it's pronounced Seb-AST-ch'n

-m