Words similar to names
Example sentences for: names
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You write, in your review of the Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names [XXI, 3, 18], It seems that in the southeastern US words beginning with shr - are pronounced as if spelled sr -, something I never knew.
The Chinese do not distinguish l from r in Western words or names, for example, so that these letters when transliterated may appear as either.
When Brazil reformed its economy several years ago, the former name of its currency was changed from cruzeiro to cruzado , the meaning `little cross' to `crusade' being of less importance than the similarity of the names in Portuguese.
FELDMAN: Of giving kids lousy names ...
Taken together, American place names are a unique primary source, a record of our cultural memory.