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[solledrache]

okay nerdy english question for you ...

For Don Juan do you pronounce it Don Jew-an, or Don Juan (spanish like)?

[gwynraven]

Actually, I always assumed it was pronounced Don Wahn, Spanish-like. But my professor pronounces it Don Jew-an, so I guess she would know better. I'll have to remember to ask her the history behind the pronunciation in class on Tuesday.

[solledrache]

I asked my professor that in Romantic lit and he said that it was Jew-an because it was a British work not Spanish.

[gwynraven]

yeah, a British work based on a Spanish personage. *sigh* it just feels wrong to say Jew-an. I'm a purist at heart. I tend to pronounce foreign words borrowed into English by their native pronunciations as well, rather than the Anglicised versions. Gets me some odd looks at times.