Resum é & dubious and the OED [ was: New spelling: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=5Fgenr=E9=5F_?=or _genre'_]

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/22/2014 01:04 AM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>I bet it's based on a pattern. Resumé with only one accent? BB

I urge those interested to look at the OED3 entry.

1)  For U.S. pronunciation, it has

r   as in run, terrier (main stress)
e  as in pet, ten
z  as in zoo, trees
    as in another (schwa)
m as in mine (secondary stress)
ay as in bay

2)  That's my pronunciation, and I naively would 
spell it resumé to correspond with the short first e.

3)  resumé is one of the Forms shown.

4)  For one of the four "permitted" (gleaned?) Pronunciations, the OED tells me

     ju:  yoo as in dubious, barbecue

Don't most people pronounce "dubious" as "doo-"?

Joel

>On Sep 21, 2014, at 9:58 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I see it everywhere, especially in comments/responses.
> >
> > Motivated by the desire to make a foreign word *look* foreign?
> >
> > Youneverknow.

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