Anglo mis-stressing

[Frans Suasso]

Not only Americans, but  Germans and  Dutch also miss-stress Aya . Not 
because this is a normal stress pattern in their own language, but because 
it is not, and it therefore sounds exotic.
Dr Frans Suasso
Naarden, the Netherlands
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From: "Vanchu, Anthony J. (JSC-AH)[TTI]" <anthony.j.vanchu at NASA.GOV>
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Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Anglo mis-stressing


>> StolichNAYA  (the escape route is STOLi,  not StoLI).
>
>>Americans seem to favor stress on -Aya; cf. SlutsKAya, ButyrsKAya, etc.
>
>
>
> A propros StolichNAYA:  I don't know if they still do it in their ads,
> but--and it was perhaps the US distributors of Stolichnaya that were
> behind this--they used to give the a guide to pronounciation of the
> vodka that showed the stress where we all know it shouldn't be.
> Remember also that Stolichnaya was sold in the US pre-glasnost'.
> Perhaps the US distributors managed to convince the Soviet side that
> they would sell more vodka that way.  Or perhaps they never even
> asked--or cared.
>
> Tony
>
> Dr. Anthony J. Vanchu
> Director, JSC Language Education Center
> TechTrans International, Inc.
> NASA Johnson Space Center
> Houston, TX
> anthony.j.vanchu at nasa.gov
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