[Ads-l] "I say...Lusitani-ay"

[Margaret Winters]

It’s a recorded song, played around Chanukah on Serius XM Radio (the Chanukah channel - about 10 days of music in Yiddish, Hebrew, Ladino, English).  Guthrie pronounces the first sound as [h] and the song is in English.  I just found out by going to YouTube that it was also recorded by the Klezmatics.

Guthrie’s wife was Jewish if that helps imagine this.

Margaret

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MARGARET E WINTERS
Former Provost and Professor Emerita French and Linguistics
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI  48202

mewinters at wayne.edu

On Sep 1, 2022, at 6:13 PM, Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:

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In a recording by Woody? In a text note? If a text had the usual spelling
with no additional comment, any singer referring to it would use their own
pronunciation.

I assume that your "[i]" is IPA for the final vowel as pronounced in a
recording. For my curiosity, did the singer pronounce the initial consonant
as [x] or [h]? [h], I assume, but one never knows, do one? (Fats Waller).

Mark Mandel

On Thu, Sep 1, 2022, 7:56 AM Margaret Winters <mewinters at wayne.edu> wrote:

One of Woody Guthrie's songs pronounces the holiday Chanuky [i].

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MARGARET E WINTERS
Former Provost
Professor Emerita - French and Linguistics
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI  48202

mewinters at wayne.edu

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