G'day Murray,

I have no brief for any concept that there is a right pronuciation ... you can't be a native English speaker and justify that proposition. I was just pointing out to a small minority that claimed there was a single 'right' pronunciation of a German "ch" that they were overlooking the second occurrence in the same word.

If you want to take a strict approach to pronunciation within the dance and music world, you have to follow the French in dance names and the Italian in matters appertaining to music - the source of a local silliness that I alluded to in my first post in respect of "Varsovienna / Varsovienne / Varsoviana / Versuviana / ... / Vater Wiesskopf / ... / ? / ! " All valid pronunciations for the same dance ... somewhere in the Australian spectrum.

Regard(les)s,

Bob Bolton