Dear Doug: You have touched on a problem that has painfully tormented me for years: that there is no one place where I can find pronunciations of many words and names the dictionaries ignore.Reading hysterical novels with Gaelic names, Polish names, Greek names, I get trapped into howlers in the company of my linguistic superiors.
As an example, I couple years ago read novel about Poland by James Michener(sp?), in which name of an estate is spelled "Lancut". Naturally I pronounced it "Lan (like man) cut (like haircut)". Halfway through the book, the hostess of the estate tells a visitor it is pronounced "WineSOOTH" It made me want to commit a nuisance on Mitchener's grave. Gaelic names are even worse. PLEASE if anyone knows solution to this problem let me know!




D