| Subject: | Re: [NABOKV-L] (pronouncing "Pnin") |
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| Date: | Thu, 03 Aug 2006 10:04:37 -0700 (PDT) |
| From: | Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com> |
| To: | Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU> |
If anyone's still interested, "Pninah" is Hebrew for "pearl". I'm no expert, but I'd expect to hear it pronouncd it with a bit of a schwa (in the original sense) after the p, so it's no help with "Pnin". (Neither is "Up, Nina", as in my speech that has an unexploded p, which I have a lot of trouble with at the beginning of a phrase.) Jerry Friedman