"The camera cannot lie" (continued)

[A. Vine]

Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>
>     _The Word "Amateur"_
>     The English language is now more widely spread over the world than any
> other, and in an effort to standardize the pronunciation of broadcast English
> the British Broadcasting Corporation has issued a further list of recent
> recommendations made by the Advisory Committee on Spoken English.  In this
> new list the word "amateur" appears, and the experts have decided that the
> correct pronunciation is "amaterr" (final syllable to rhyme with fur), and
> few will quarrel with the experts, as this is the way it is usually
> pronounced.  The word is French from the Latin "amator," and a well-known
> French dictionary gives the pronunication as "am-at-ur."  One sometimes hears
> the word pronounced "am-at-teur" or even "am-at-chewer," both of which are
> incorrect.

This from the very same folks who pronounce "Beaulieu" as "byoo-lee" and "Ypres"
as "wipers".  I believe I will retain my colonial pronunciation of "amateur".

Andrea
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Andrea Vine
Sun-Netscape Alliance messaging i18n architect
avine at eng.sun.com
I always wanted to be an architect. }sigh{  Of course, I _am_ an architect.