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97919.8 in reply to 97919.6
Date: 6/20/2009 7:04:47 PM
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Gates, thank you! Perhaps your Turkish heritage makes you an expert on the subject.
As long as we can avoid the last syllable of Illinois it makes sense (a joke). That syllable is always a controversey where I grew up. I'm thinking jack chap chack. Illichak Sabri Ilicak. I really apprecate the help.

Not sure about the pronuciation of Cicci . Before, I pronounced like the name of a restaraunt here. ChiChis. The double c must make a hard c sound, so seekchee or cheekchee must be the answer. If I could, I would rename him Berlusconi , because I have heard an Italian say that name.

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97919.9 in reply to 97919.8
Date: 6/21/2009 10:21:05 AM
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Perhaps you should watch the Godfather (and Part II). :-)

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97919.10 in reply to 97919.9
Date: 6/21/2009 12:11:12 PM
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The Godfather ideas occur when I negotiate new contracts. I imagine a Vince Lombardi era coach (no signing bonuses, no strikes). He invites my star power forward into his office and says "I'm gonna make you an offer you can't refuse." If the PF does refuse, there's a slight delay, the coach makes a phone call. "Congratulations, you now play in Division V league 53."

As for the American player Cai Shunnan. Hm, this man is a parody of Yao Ming Cai is a Chinese surname, pronounced kay or eye as in kaiser. Shunnan might be Shu Nan , the closest relative I can find. Or it's Welsh, as I found Cai is a Welsh spelling of Kay, and Shunnan might be a Welsh name. None of the references are African.

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Date: 6/21/2009 4:30:29 PM
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As long as we can avoid the last syllable of Illinois it makes sense (a joke). That syllable is always a controversey where I grew up.


last syllable of Illinois is a controversy even in Illinois so we better keep the subject away from that

form is temporary class is permanent
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97919.12 in reply to 97919.11
Date: 6/22/2009 9:12:13 AM
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Gates , thanks for the laugh. and yes it is controversial. But, I don't know why hoosiers have trouble saying Iowa?

I should ask about Verneris Liubinas. He comes from Lithuania.

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97919.13 in reply to 97919.8
Date: 6/26/2009 3:54:50 AM
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I'm not Italian and therefore I might be wrong, but I believe that your player name should be pronounced "Chee-chee" [most definitely not "Seekchee" or "Cheekchee"]. To be honest, Chi-chi would probably make more sense to me, but for an American, I would say that Chee-chee is probably more accurate.
Sound "Ch" shouldn't be pronounced as hard as it's pronounced in words such as "Chuck" and "Cheese", though, but a bit softer. Perhaps something like "Ch" in "Chimney".

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97919.14 in reply to 97919.13
Date: 6/26/2009 2:30:47 PM
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I'm Italian. The correct pronunciation is Cheeckee. Well actually it's a little bit different but I can't think of a better approximation, after all different languages have different sounds.

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97919.15 in reply to 97919.14
Date: 6/26/2009 10:50:20 PM
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Thank you, Italian gselfish. I prefer the advice of native speakers. To use English sounds I choose the words cheek key. I thionk the glottal stop in the middle is important. It's not one k sound, but two. not cheeky, but cheek key.

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97919.16 in reply to 97919.15
Date: 6/28/2009 6:15:49 AM
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That's correct. I would only point out that the accent is on the first syllable, so the best phonetic transcription is probably:
chēk'kē

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97919.17 in reply to 97919.16
Date: 6/28/2009 12:03:31 PM
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Thank you for the good use of phonetics. It is better than I have done in phonetics. I'm happy to see where the accent is too.