Date:  Thu, 5 Oct 1995 16:32:27 CDT

From:  "Donald M. Lance" <ENGDL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU>

Subject: Re: pronunciation note



TV announcers (and maybe copy-preparers) like to show that they are

educated. When Brunei was in the news recently, I think all the newscasters

I heard assumed that German spelling was at work. You know, "ei" is

pronounced "eye." I've known people from there, and they said "ay-ee",

which is what I'd assume from history. Maybe the news people can get

the locals to clean up their phonetics.     DMLance