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Offline Teshi

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« Reply #25 on: May 06, 2006, 10:53:25 AM »
I am firmly in the "so called long i" camp. It would never occur to my to pronounce Lyre, or Lyra, or Lycanthropism or whatever that werewolf word is with a "so called short i".

Ly definately spells Lye for me.
 

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« Reply #26 on: May 06, 2006, 11:27:56 AM »
SM : I read the first trilogy, I heard there were new books with only Lyra but I'm not too sure whether I want to read them or not. What about you?  
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« Reply #27 on: May 06, 2006, 11:51:42 AM »
Lycanthrope.
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« Reply #28 on: May 07, 2006, 04:03:49 PM »
They still have Lira in Turkey, I believe.  Though I guess they were being considered for the EU.  Does everyone in the EU automatically use the Euro?  Which I naturally pronounce as Gyro.
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« Reply #29 on: May 07, 2006, 04:04:37 PM »
Oh, cwap.
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« Reply #30 on: May 07, 2006, 04:10:06 PM »
Not everyone uses the euro. The British still use the pound, for instance.
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« Reply #31 on: May 07, 2006, 09:27:32 PM »
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SM : I read the first trilogy, I heard there were new books with only Lyra but I'm not too sure whether I want to read them or not. What about you?
The original HDM trilogy was pretty Lyra-centered, so it sounds a little repetitive to make a new one headlighting her.  Phillip Pullman just isn't one of those authors I keep track of anymore.
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