From: James Kass (thunder-bird@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Oct 16 2007 - 14:54:40 CDT
> Which characters to use for (pronounced leh-nerd skin-nerd)?
Would this be a good candidate for a FAQ page?
Kenneth Whistler wrote,
> Certainly the "pronunciation" doesn't pass muster as an actual
> representation, because it wouldn't need 4 stress marks. And
> the e-acutes don't follow American dictionaries, either. They
> might have been a substitution for schwas that the font didn't
> have.
They might have been for mere effect, as in the band name
"Blue Ă–yster Cult" and others. (See the Wikipedia article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_umlaut
if interested in gratuitous diacritics in band names.)
The intended audience might be expected to mentally remove the
diacritics and just pronounce it "leh-nerd skin-nerd". (I've
always pronounced it "linnerd skinnerd", which is probably
close enough.)
Best regards,
James Kass
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