Posted by Terry Doyle on January 16, 1998 at 07:20:07:
In Reply to: Re: Say " Ecce ", Please posted by Tim Stretton on January 16, 1998 at 04:49:16:
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: : How does one pronounce "Ecce"? I've been reading it as "Eck-uh".
: Pronunciations generally can be a bit tricky in Vance. Normally you can make a reasonably accurate guess, but I have always been flummoxed by "Lens Larque". Lons Lark? Lens Lark? Lons Larker? Lens Larker? There must be other alternatives too...
I always figured that Jack liked the *sound* of the language which led me, perhaps erringly to believe that there are few silent letters in a proper noun Vanceanlly constructed.
This view would be contrasted to Vance loving the way his words *looked* on the page in which case you might find virtually unpronounceable place and person names.
: "Viole Falushe" has long troubled me too.
My idosyncratic reading is vee-OH-lah fa-LOOSH.
Terry