/s/ = /S/ in context of new name

[Herb Stahlke]

Actually, Sade, with /S/, is the shortened form of the Yoruba name
Folasade /fOlaSade/, glossed "take-honor-make-crown" or, in English,
"honor confers a crown."  Since Helen Folasade Adu, OBE, is Yoruba,
The Anglicized spelling retains the Yoruba pronunciation, except for
the tones, which are Mid-High.  In Yoruba orthography, the <S> would
have a subscript vertical bar, representing the sound /S/.

Herb

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> On Nov 7, 2011, at 9:14 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
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>> You mean, just like the most popular female British singer of all time?
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>> DanG
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> Indeed, it would be much tougher now to name a baby "Sade" and have it pronounced in the manner of the Marquis, the way we could in the good old days.
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> LH
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>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/conrad-murrays-girlfriends-testify-sade-anding-nicole-alvarez/story?id=146581
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>>> One of Dr. Murray's friends, "Sade Anding," pronounces her given name
>>> as / Sa 'dei / (i.e., Sha-DAY).
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>>> According to CNN.
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