>Never felt the need (either "us" or "them damn animals
>over there" has always done me fine), but I think I'd
>have gone for
>
>h'SUN-chen: stress on the first (real) syllable.
>
Nuts. Actually I take my earlier statement back, Jane has described the way I pronounce it perfectly. (This is why I didn't do very well in linguistics class).
>Probably because I register the -chen as a Germanic
>diminutive.
Does that mean there's just plain Hsun out there? Bigger and meaner than the darling little Hsunchen?
I shudder to think,
Oliver
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