From: Marco Antoniotti
Subject: Re: pronunciation question.
Date: 
Message-ID: <lwu2spn1pj.fsf@copernico.parades.rm.cnr.it>
NOISE AHEAD

Steve Dickey <······@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu> writes:

> flet
> defun
> princ
> nconc
> progn
> eql
> 
> How does one pronounce these?

As in Italian and German and other better behaved languages than
English.  French is a bit messy, since it actually has more vowels
than Chinese :). (Yeah! Italians have the "trailing vowel problem",
but that is an artifact of our neuronal pathways)

 flet	flet
 defun	defun
 princ	princ
 nconc	nconc
 progn	progn
 eql	eql

:)

Cheers

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From: Fernando Mato Mira
Subject: Re: pronunciation question.
Date: 
Message-ID: <37563E64.C464B6C7@iname.com>
> Steve Dickey <······@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu> writes:
>
> > How does one pronounce these?
>

Spanish-infuenced English-oriented mind:

flet       F-LET or EFLET
defun   DEFUN
princ    PRIN-CE
nconc  NKONK; ENEKONK maybe when speaking in Spanish
progn  PROG-EN
eql      E-KU-ELE; E-KIU-EL when speaking in English

clos     KLOS