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Re: How to pronounce Opera?

Subject: Re: How to pronounce Opera?
From: "Richard Grevers"
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 08:42:15 +1200
Newsgroups: opera.general
On Sun, 03 Jul 2005 00:43:04 +1200, FACE <AFaceintheCrowd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 1 Jul 2005 19:18:03 -0700, in opera.general "R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah"
<ng4rrjanbiah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

3. ahprah (no one use this right version here)

Finally, one i can relate to. :-)
I think that most Americans pronounce it that way with the stress on the
first syllable, i.e., AH-prah. The "prah" is actually "per-ah" with the two syllables run together as one in pronunciation. In pure text it is hard to describe pronunciations. I have no idea how you are internally pronouncing the words that i am writing, but in the end, it makes no difference --as in this case so long as we both know we are talking about the character string
O-P-E-R-A.

I can't say I've ever heard the O pronounced with 'ah' or any other sort of 'a' sound. Here in the Pacific the universal pronounciation would be a short o as in "stop" or "orange".
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