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From: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (Michael Ross)
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Subject: Re: "Apartheid" pronunciation
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Date: Tue, 14-Jan-86 13:15:44 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 14 13:15:44 1986
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In article <1299@brl-tgr.ARPA> wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes:
>Back before the recent prominence the news media have given the South
>African situation, and when they first began to mention it, it was just
>about universal that "apartheid" was pronounced "apart-hite";
>interestingly, now it is just about universal that it is pronounced
>"apart-hate".
>    ...
>  ... Anybody know what the actual Afrikaans pronunciation really is?
>(The "correct" or formal one, that is; I suppose their are accents and
>dialects that would equate to any of the four mentioned! :-)
>
>Will Martin
>
>UUCP/USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin   or   ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA

I used to live in Holland, and Dutch is very similar to Afrikaans. In Holland
it is pronounced somewhere between "hite" and "hate", perhaps a little on the
"hate" side.

	--MKR