FreeLists / az-observing / [AZ-Observing] Re: Pronunciation of Dolidze and Dzimselejsvili

["Jack Jones" <spicastar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'll stick with my pronunciations "Doe' lids" and Dzindzichashvili (who
is actually a Russian Chess Master, but I've already learned a crazy
name once, I'm not doing it again).

Jack Jones
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>      ...except that these are Georgian names (as in Republic of
Georgia).
> I have a Georgian alphabet and phonetic sounding list at the office,
> so I'll remember to check this out (I'm at the telescope now).  I've
been
> extracting data from the Abastumani Observatory bulletins, in which
these
> two authors figure prominently, so I've been dealing with their data.
> I've been pronouncing the names based mainly on the Cyrillic
> transliteration (being Soviet-era stuff, the texts are mainly in
Russian),
> and come up with:
>
> Dolidze   DOLE-id-zuh   where 'zuh' is a schwa with a z on the front
>
> Dzimselejsvili   dzim-she-leesh-vee-lee    okay, 'dz' is almost j; the
s is
>                  almost certainly 'sh' as per the Cyrilic and their
own
>                  Arabic-letter spelling in the journal itself (the
Georgian
>                  script is an unreproducible variant on Greek)
>


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