Discussion Groups / British English / February 2008

Embarking on a renavigation of Umberto Eco's
"Serendipities - Language and Lunacy" (from
Italian by William Weaver), the opening chapter
"THE FORCE OF FALSITY" yielded the following

Since Vinci is a town near Florence its italian pronounce is
VEEN-chee, although in Tuscany probably they say something
closer to VEEN-shee.
Anyway, Italians pronounce English names using Italian phonetic

I am not an native speaker. Can someony please explain
the difference between:
Ghost
Phantom

my English teacher sometimes told us a Limerick which I only partly
remember:
There was a ?young? lady of ??
who wanted to catch the two-two.

Has anyone tried these?
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