How do you pronounce TIKAL?
Ray Jankowski
TLDreaming
-Fez
Anestis Kozakis
Consider words like Ball, Call, Mall, Fall, Hall, and so on (with two
ll's thus making a flat a).
Then you have names like Al, Mal, and words like Gal (as in Guys and
Gals) and so on, making for a more pronounced a.
*ahem*
Oops, sorry, didn't mean to give a lesson in pronunciation. :-/
I suppose it could also be "TICK-AL" as well. Take your pick! :-)
Anestis.
TLDreaming wrote:
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> TEE CALL.
> -Fez
Claudia Schlee
Ray Jankowski schrieb:
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> just a dumb question : )
TEE-CALL, but the "A" would sound like the "A" in Archbishop ;) That is, how
the germans would say... ;) Although the word Tikal just has one "L" it would
sound like it has more ;)
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Dylan O'Donnell
> just a dumb question : )
According to the Columbia Encyclopedia, [tEkäl']; "tee KAAL", where
"aa" is the vowel in "art" or "father". Though pronunciation
discussions on international newsgroups develop into futility pretty
quickly...
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<Claudia...@t-online.de> wrote:
> Ray Jankowski schrieb:
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> > just a dumb question : )
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>
> TEE-CALL, but the "A" would sound like the "A" in Archbishop ;)
"Ar", followed by "l", has no actual word equivalent in either language
that I am aware of in which the actual word does not have an "r" (e.g.,
"Carl").
I pronounce Tikal as "t'kal", with emphasis on the second syllible,
which includes the "k", and with the "a" sound same as that in "cat".
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> Ray Jankowski <Ra...@swbell.net> writes:
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> > just a dumb question : )
>
> According to the Columbia Encyclopedia, [tEkäl']; "tee KAAL", where
> "aa" is the vowel in "art" or "father". Though pronunciation
> discussions on international newsgroups develop into futility pretty
> quickly...
Not if you use ASCII IPA. :-D
/ti 'kal/
(See www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Evan_Kirshenbaum/IPA/faq.html)
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TLDreaming
Guatemala pronounced it when I went there on my honeymoon in '97.
-Fez
George Crawshay
Well, that's the obvious answer, isn't it? Tikal is in Guatemala,
sfter all, and if they don't know how to pronounce their own places,
God help them! TEE CULL is absolutely right, the best approximation
I've seen in all this farrago of utter nonsense.
George Crawshay
DCORaspler
So we call it "tickle."
Ha ha ha. Funny stuff, huh?