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Posted by Jeffrey (Guest) - Thursday, July 14 2011, 4:49:04 (UTC)
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If you can get me a picture of the plaque in Surath (our language IS phonetic, you know), and hopefully with vowel markers, I will transliterate it properly for you.

P.S. Is the plaque only in English, or in our language as well?

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pancho wrote:
>we're getting ready to have the bronze plaque to the Shumirum Monument engraved and we've run into a controvery as to how "Shumirum" should be spelled. Everyone I know insists that the correct spelling is "Shamiram". But I say no one pronounces it ShAM-i-rAM"....we all say ShUM-i-rUM. I insist that a taxi-driving immigrant barely decent in English vowel-sounds gave us that spelling, while we all went on pronouncing it with a "u" sound and never with an "a" sound.
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>We are a hide-bound people....I'm even told that I'm not a linguist so who am I etc.
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>I'm asking for any instance when "tam" is pronounced TUM...when the "a" is pronounced like it was a "u"...so far nothing....so I don;t see why I should continue an error like it was sacred tradition.
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>Anyone who actually knows English would never have spelled "Shamiram" if he HEARD us say SHUMIRUM...and we ALL pronounce it as if it was spelled SHUMIRUM....no?

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a dispute pancho - Wednesday, July 13 2011, 15:04:44 (UTC)
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