taking poll on pronunciation

[Nola]

I would definately expect to hear "BoroDINo". It's natural somehow for us- well, Americans, anyway- to try to stress the second-to-last syllable in words like these. I remember a TV ad with Ricardo Montalban in the '70's for a car: the Chrysler Cordoba. Cordoba has stress on the first syllable. I was surprised when Ricardo called it "CorDOba". My husband was surprised too(he was a native Mexican). We learned later that the Chrysler company decided to call it "CorDOba" because they knew most Americans would be too stuborn to stress the first syllable anyway.  So even Ricardo Montalban(Montal-BAN, hehe!) had to say it like that in the commercial.
Nola
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Inna Caron 
  To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu 
  Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 1:21 PM
  Subject: [SEELANGS] taking poll on pronunciation


  Dear SEELANGers:

  where do native speakers of English place the stress in "Borodino"? I heard at least two variations. One has better rhyming potential than the other, but I would like to use the pronunciation most likely assumed by an English-speaking reader who may or may not be familiar with the historical term.

  Thank you!

  IC

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