Anglo mis-stressing

[colkitto]

>
> Some of the worst mis-stresses I can figure out.  MiKHAIL becomes 
> "Mick-HALE"
> because it looks like that, and DACHa is stressed correctly but the 
> pronunciation is
> DAKHA (not the way the word actually looks) because an analogy, for some 
> unknown
> reason, is made with the concentration camp, Dachau.

Actually, I heard the analogy made with Scottish Gaelic dachaidh 
(dhachaidh) - "home" , where a linguistically sophisticated speaker 
(university lecturer in a European language, neither Slavic or Celtic) asked 
if it were related to dacha (same stress), but with a fricative instead of 
palatal.

folk etuymologies never case to amaze

and meanwhile, to round off the triangle, equating  "Dachau" and "dachaidh" 
is something that never occurred to me - although judging from the recent 
apparent shift of interest on the part of the insaner neo-Nazis to Celtic 
material, maybe there's a short horror  story waiting to be written .......

also, in Afrikaans "dagga:" (pron. dakha!!) is "marijuana".......... 

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