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Frances Ross <[log in to unmask]>
Fri, 23 Apr 2004 22:57:25 +0100
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>From:    Wilkinson Jens <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: pronunciation
>
I
>assume that the native English speakers out there
>pronounce paleo as "pay-lee-oh", right? So it would rhyme
>with "Hey, Leo!" I wonder, though, those of you from
>France or say Sweden, when you say the word, would you
>tend to use the "English" pronunciation, or would you say
>"pah leo," which would rhyme with "tally-ho"?


Scottish: I pronounce it Pally-oh as in tally-oh, not ho. I don't think I have
ever heard it called pay-lee-oh.

Fran

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