Nicaragua

[Mullins, Bill]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society
> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of FRITZ JUENGLING
> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 11:19 AM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Nicaragua
>
> Although I agree with your message, I have issue with your
> statement about 'Kant'.  How DO English speakers pronounce
> it? I have never heard anything but [kahnt], i.e. the German
> pronunciation in English. Am I out of my mind, or is there
> another pronunciation of which I am unaware?  (I see that the
> AHD also gives a rhyme with 'ant', but I have never heard
> that)

Monty Python:

Immanual Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy begger
Who could think you under the table
David Hume could outconsume
Schopenhauer and Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as sloshed as Schlegel