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A recent article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune contained a curious pronunciation spelling an attempt to represent a pronunciation using ordinary English letters:
At
http://www.startribune.com/stories/438/4375430.html
the author discusses the change of decor, menu, and name for the Pickled Parrot restaurants, which will take the name Bilimbi Bay. What pronunciation do you think the pronunciation spelling in the following is supposed to represent: "All three Pickled Parrots in Apple Valley, Eden Prairie and Uptown Minneapolis should go Bilimbi (pronounced baa-limb-bee) by mid-March."
/b@lImbi/, /b&lImbi/, or /bAlImbi/?
Raymond S. Wise
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
E-mail: mplsray @ yahoo . com
At
http://www.startribune.com/stories/438/4375430.html
the author discusses the change of decor, menu, and name for the Pickled Parrot restaurants, which will take the name Bilimbi Bay. What pronunciation do you think the pronunciation spelling in the following is supposed to represent: "All three Pickled Parrots in Apple Valley, Eden Prairie and Uptown Minneapolis should go Bilimbi (pronounced baa-limb-bee) by mid-March."
/b@lImbi/, /b&lImbi/, or /bAlImbi/?
Raymond S. Wise
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
E-mail: mplsray @ yahoo . com
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html the author discusses the change of decor, menu, and name for the Pickled Parrot restaurants, which will take the ... [/nq] I would guess /bA'lImbi:/, but who can tell? The OED gives /bI'lImbI/ (notice the reference to pickle in the 1772-84 citation): [nq:2]bilimbi(bI"lImbI) Also 8 blimbi, 9 bilimby, blimbing.
- html the author discusses the change of decor, menu, and name for the Pickled Parrot restaurants, which will take the ...
- [/nq] I would guess /bA'lImbi:/, but who can tell?
- The OED gives /bI'lImbI/ (notice the reference to pickle in the 1772-84 citation): [nq:2]bilimbi(bI"lImbI) Also 8 blimbi, 9 bilimby, blimbing.
- )[/nq] A tree (Averrhoa Bilimbi, family Oxalidaceæ), growing in India and Sri Lanka, which yields a juice used by the natives for the cure of skin-diseases; also its fruit.
- 84 Cook Voy.
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[nq:1]http://www.startribune.com/stories/438/4375430.html the author discusses the change of decor, menu, and name for the Pickled Parrot restaurants, which will take the ... in Apple Valley, Eden Prairie and Uptown Minneapolis should go Bilimbi (pronounced baa-limb-bee) by mid-March." /b@lImbi/, /b&lI
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