On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, marie elia wrote:
oh, archel mentioned Cruel Intentions and the american pronunciation of "sebastian" as "sebasjun"... um, yes, over here we say it like that. i wasn't aware that the british way was to pronounce all the syllables -- se-bas-ti-an.
I looked up "bastion" in the dictionary, and two pronunciations are listed: "bas'-chen" and "bas'-tee-en" (no schwa etc. in ASCII, sorry) I wonder if the order would be reversed in a British dictionary. In American English, consonants don't take their full value as much as in British English (exceptions include "r" after a vowel). --Mark __ Burning Rome : SENSELESS CD on Mindfield Records MindCD03 Cathartium 14 < http://www.burningrome.com/ > < more high-quality MP3s coming soon > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+