On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:52:18 +1000, Alan S wrote:
>On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 13:39:37 +0100, d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk (David
>Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:
>
>>
>>OK- I don't want to out on a limb and embarrass myself in front of
>>native or fluent speakers. (There's no reason a musician would know
>>Italian vowels per se- actually, a lot of italian terms in music are
>>pronounced _very_ approximately anyway.) However, there are a limited
>>number of Italian vowel sounds- 7. 2 e's, a short and a long. I would
>>have though short, but I've no idea why! :)
>
>The TV news people here nearly all pronounce it Mod'na or
>Moddina emphasis on the Mod. I have no idea if that's
>correct, but it sounds right to me.
Play Piero post.
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Martin
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