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From: lilandbr@scn.org (Leland Bryant Ross)
Subject: Re: Gaijin vs -san  (was Re: If you hate ... )
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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 02:22:23 GMT
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In a previous article, phil@vision25.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt) says:

>           RDD@USA1.com "Aaron J. Dinkin" writes:
>> In article <lkd8tdghht.fsf@liberator.st.com>, jamie wrote:
>> >I'm sorry to have to say that after 6 in the US I still found the
>> >pronounciation of that one word painful! (Almost as bad as the US
>> >pronounciation of "basil" [the 'erb])
>> 
>> Well, I'm glad it only bothers you in the evening, at any rate. But what's
>> wrong with /'b&z@l/? Rhymes with razzle-dazzle!
>
>I expect some Americans pronounce it /b@'zi:l/ or somesuch.

For me (educated Seattleite speaker) Caen was a Herb but basil is an 
herb, and the herb is /'beIzl/ with a syllabic /l/ *or* /'b&zl/, in that 
order of preference, and the herb is homophonous with the Saint.
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