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06-15-2007, 08:27 AM #1
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06-15-2007, 08:55 AM #2
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I've wondered the same thing myself
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06-15-2007, 11:22 AM #3
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I was wondering the same thing myself so I looked it up on the internet. According to Cadencecycling.com, it's pronounced "ett-shay on-doe". But I think Adventure Girl had it more accurately pegged at "ĭk-spěn'sĭv"...
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06-15-2007, 11:49 AM #4
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The tx phonetic is equivalent to a hard "ch" in English, like the first ch of church. Basque vowels are pronounced more or less most other latin vowels, although final o's can tend to have a shortened u sound. So the e is like "eh" or "ay", and the o is like "oh".
Etxe means house and is a common root of many common Spanish surnames like Echevarria. Ondo means good or well.Last edited by Dianyla; 06-15-2007 at 11:52 AM. Reason: more vowel clarification
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06-15-2007, 06:00 PM #5
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I've got another one - I was watching a reply of some Paris - Nice coverage last night and the Aussie commentator said co-fi-dis, whereas I had thought (maybe from tdf coverage) that it was cof-i-dis.
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