Anglicization

[Ben Zimmer]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>
> When I was in the Army, the Danes complained - to no
> avail, of course - of the practice by visiting GI's of using the
> "German" pronunciation of Copenhagen, with German-like "ah" in the
> third syllable, erroneously considering it to be more "Danish" than
> the usual English pronunciation with "ey."

The Economist's Johnson blog recently faulted Obama for using the "ah"
pronunciation:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2010/09/barack_obama

--bgz

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