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От : Ardith Hinton 1:153/716 06 окт 24 22:06:15
К : Gleb Hlebov 06 окт 24 08:17:02
Тема : Strange a bit
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Hi, Gleb! Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:
AH> I guess if I`d never seen your name written down &/or you
AH> asked me to approximate it phonetically I might spell it
AH> "A leg ZAN der".
GH> There`s only a slight difference. I believe this is because
GH> "Alexander" is a Greek originated name
Quite possibly. The earliest occurrence of this name I know of,
i.e. "Alexander the Great", dates back about 2400 years.
GH> which came into English via French,
As a proper noun, maybe. OTOH it is also used as a botanical
name... which my OXFORD CANADIAN DICTIONARY tells me comes from medieval
Latin.
IMHO the history of the English language tends to reflect who
invaded the Island of Great Britain at what time & the ancient Romans did
it long before "William the Conqueror" did. We`ll adopt a good word
from anywhere. :-)
GH> and the French tend to pronounce "x" consonants mostly as
GH> [gz].
As we do in this case. I`ve seen it spelled "Alexandre" In French...
GH> Russian inherited it directly from Greek so we pronounce it
GH> the Greek way as [ks].
... and I`ve also seen it spelled "Aleksandr" by Russian
Fidonetters. While I can understand that, there are details which continue to
puzzle me.
I think what Alexander most needs to know is that when we
shorten his name to "Alex" in English we use the /ks/ as he would. But
meanwhile Dallas & I had a wonderful time researching the topic, for which
we thank you... [chuckle].
--- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+
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