Re: Pronunciation of Station Names

[Eddie.Oliver@efs.mq.edu.au (Eddie Oliver)]

dbromage@metz.une.edu.au (David Bromage) wrote:
>
>>>Weismantels
>>
>>WEECE--mant-els
>
>But in German where you have ei or ie, you pronounce the second letter.
>It ought to be Wise-mant-els. (Or more correctly Vise-mant-els).

Quite so.
But

1. Why do you think it should be pronounced as though it were German?

2. If every station name - let alone every word in the English language -
had to be pronounced according to its original pronunciation, we would
have to modify an extraordinarily high number of things we routinely
say.

Eddie Oliver