Stupid question?

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sabre28mk1

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Oct 30, 2019
32
Does one pronounce Vega as "Vay-gah" or "Vee-Gah"?
Just curious as I would hate to be pronouncing the name incorrectly.
Thanks!
Chris
 
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sabre28mk1

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Oct 30, 2019
32
Cos Cob...been a few years, but I taught in Greenwich
for 5 years at the Brunswick School. Small world...but
I would'nt want to paint it!

Cheers!
 
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wxt8981

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Oct 31, 2019
562
I guess that all depends where you reside and what language
you speak. Don't forget, the pronouncation of the English
Alphabet is quite different to, let's say, German, Swedish
or Norwegian.
Wilhelm, V-257
 
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charington

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Oct 30, 2019
5
I think the Astronomical names and pronunciations cross country and
local language pronunciations.
The following link goes to the Astronomical League which provides a
pronunciation guide to the stars..

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www.astroleague.org
If I remember correctly, most were based on the Arabic pronunciations.
(Really not arguing a point... I just find it very fascinating..)
John
 
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wxt8981

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Oct 31, 2019
562
Hmmm... the Romans gave us our abc, though they didn't have
the letters 'K', 'Z' for example, but anyone who ever
studied Latin should know how the Romans pronounced the
abc. There are still quite a few countries that use the
Roman pronunciation, German is one of them, and strangely
enough, the Bahasa Indonesia pronounces its abc like the
Romans did (even though their language doesn't belong to
the Indo-European group of languages. The Arabs gave us the
numbers, but not right away 0(Zero), that came much later,
and aren't we glad we don't have to use the Roman numerals
for computation (imagine 1/2 of 12 would be 7! [half of XII
= VII]).
Wilhelm, V-257
 
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td76

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Oct 31, 2019
50
According to a BBC article,

George Bernard Shaw's observation that the US and the UK are "two
nations divided by a common language" is perhaps more accurate than
many Britons might suspect.

Frank Fowler wrote:
 
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