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From: begeman@milano.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Champagnes
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Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 15:48:46 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  8 15:48:46 1986
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Keywords: Inexpensive, melt-in-your-mouth
Summary: Freixenet: on pronunciation & other matters.

> 
> 	By the way, here's a question for discussion: How do you pronounce
> 'Freixenet?' ... I was reading a menu in a restaurant once (a good practice, 
> by the way) and they suggested that it be pronounced 'Fresh Net.'
> 
> 	What do you think?

Sorry, but "Fresh net" won't do it.  In the spanish spoken in central
Mexico (as well as Basque and Catalan regions of Spain) an X is 
pronounced as a "zh" (with more emphasis on the Z).  In Mexico, there's
a well known fish recipe (maybe I'll post to net.cooks?) called Pescado
Tikin Xik (pronounced "tee-kin zeek" - the h of the zh is almost silent
in this one).

Freixenet is (correctly) pronounced fre-zhi-net (the "r" of "fre" should
be rolled as in spanish, the "e" is short (as in "eh?"), the "i" of "zhi" 
is said as in "fig", and the "t" of "net" is almost silent).  Being unable to
pronounce *anything* with just one language's rules though, I keep calling
it fre-zhi-nay (a'la frances).  

But keeping our perspective about these things...once you hit the bottom
of the bottle it doesn't matter *what* you call it :-)
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Michael L. Begeman              Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp
Software Technology Program     Austin (where the sun always shines) Texas

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