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Re: Pronunciation of "Marcq Saint-Hilaire"
From: Jean-Philippe Planas
Date: 2006 Feb 2, 09:58 -0800
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From: Jean-Philippe Planas
Date: 2006 Feb 2, 09:58 -0800
It sounds this way:
"mark sen't-ee-l-air"
JPP
Alexandre E Eremenko <eremenko@MATH.PURDUE.EDU> wrote:
With my modest background in French
(and some daily experience with English:-)
I would say
"sen-ee-l-air"
Alex.
On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> With the intellectual and international credentials of this group,
> would someone please try to convey in print the correct
> pronunciation of the name of our our favorite French guy Marcq
> Saint-Hilaire? Or is it Ste. Hilaire?
>
> I must speak about his "method" and realized I can't do justice to the
> man's name, having only seen it and never heard it.
>
> Is it something like
>
&! gt; mark soh(n) ee-LAIR ?
>
>
> Thanks,
> -Jeff Schroeder
>
>
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