22601: Lawless: Re: 22557: Mambo Racine responding again to spelling of "Mambo" - Re: 22524: (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Robert Lawless <robert.lawless@wichita.edu>

I'm not a native speaker of Creole, and I've worked only in Port-au-Prince
and Cap-Haitien. But I've never heard the (second) M pronounced. Can
someone verify whether such a pronunciation is, in fact, used in Jacmel?
Wobe (no diacriticals available on my program)

At 07:31 PM 6/29/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>It has nothing to do with whether the person is a Creole linguist either -
>the fact is that the word is pronounced MAM-bo, both "m's" are
>pronounced.  Come to Jacmel!