quest for info/suggestions. re: dialects

[David Bergdahl]

"Dennis R. Preston" wrote:

> Yeah, Don, not to mention Warsaw [varSHAva], Poznan [POZnañ], Gdansk
> [gdañsk] and (my all-time favorite) Lodz [wooch].
> What part of our cultural history would make it necessary to give French
> pronunciation to (some) French items but none to any Polish ones? Go figure
> (as if we didn't know).

Not to mention the familiar mispronunciation of Polish names with -ow as [aU]
rather than [^f]; CRAKOW is "crock-off" rather than "crack-ow"

db (whose name in Swedish is BERry-Dawl)
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