The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

=> a dispute

a dispute
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Wednesday, July 13 2011, 15:04:44 (UTC)
from *** - *** Network - Windows XP - Mozilla
Website:
Website title:

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.

We are a hide-bound people....I'm even told that I'm not a linguist so who am I etc.

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.

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?



---------------------


The full topic:



***



Powered by RedKernel V.S. Forum 1.2.b9