Re: How do you folks pronounce "Scirocco?"

["Jeremy R. Bromley" <jbromley@mail.enterprise.net>]

> Date:          Mon, 25 Nov 1996 18:49:59 -0500 (EST)
> From:          "John K. Gates" <john@fang.cs.sunyit.edu>
> To:            scirocco-l@privateI.com
> Subject:       How do you folks pronounce "Scirocco?"
> Reply-to:      scirocco-l@privateI.com

> It just occurred to me... How do fellow Scirocco'ers pronounce "Scirocco?"
> Do you say "shurockoh" or do you say "skirockoh?" Or somehow else? I've heard
> both ways but personally thought that "shurockoh" was correct... the
> people that say "skirockoh" are also the people that say Audi, "awdie" instead
> of "owdie"...
> 

Any relation to Bill? {;-) I bet you've never heard that one 
before....

Anyroad up, I pronounce it "Shhh-Rocko" (Shhh as in "Be Quiet!) and 
Rock as in Rock and then O! Always sounds good to me.

> Hoping not to start a war, :)
> 
> John K. Gates, UNIX Systems Administrator/Software Engineer
> john@fang.cs.sunyit.edu, http://www.cs.sunyit.edu/~john
> '85 8v Scirocco!
> 
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