Subject: [Tweeters] pronunciation of Baikal
Date: Dec 17 20:36:10 2004
From: Mike Patterson - celata at pacifier.com


Am I the only googler?

From: http://www.bartleby.com/61/87/B0028700.html
The American Heritage? Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.

Baikal, Lake
SYLLABICATION: Bai?kal
PRONUNCIATION: bI-k?l', -kOl
VARIANT FORMS: or Bay?kal
A lake of south-central Russia. Over 636 km long (394 mi), it is the
largest
freshwater lake in Eurasia and the world's deepest lake, with a maximum
known
depth of 1,742.2 m (5,712 ft).

Hear it pronouced at:
http://www.bartleby.com/61/wavs/87/B0028700.wav

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Mike Patterson
Astoria, OR
celata at pacifier.com

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