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Old 11-11-2005, 01:07 PM   #31
Holbytlass
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Originally Posted by Gothmog
Point is: it doesn't sound like in English which must have been hard for you anglo-speaking boys and girls in the beginning.
Hee-hee, how true, except for me it was second time 'round. First read, I just read through, in fact didn't know about the appendices till I got to the end of RotK, then I saw how wrong I was pronouncing many words and names.

Second read was when I took my time and looked up pronunciations and words in a dictionary.

P.S.-I remember that political incident, looked up the word at the time and got angry because the idiots who were mad never took the time to! So when I read it in RotK, already knew what it meant!
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