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ost_uid0]"Marseille" in English is "mar-say."[/quote
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Then it's hopeless. There's no way to explain.
[quote
ost_uid0]By "ij" you mean something like "ayee"?[/quote
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Nope. But I guess it's the closest thing.[/color
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ost_uid0]As I understand it, the word "apartheid" was pronounced, at least in South Africa, as if it were "apart-hate" or "apart-heydh" (to English-speaking ears.) The [i
ost_uid0]ei[/i
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Growing up, though, I always heard it pronounced like "apart-hide".[/color
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