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thucydides

5/13/2008
09:22:25

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Subject: ELO rating

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How is ELO pronounced?

ccmcacollister

5/13/2008
09:39:32

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Well ...

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I pronounce it as EE' - low ...
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Unless I was in Holland, then I think I would pronounce it OWH@ - l@ , sort of as in "Euwe", ... yeah ?!!?
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}B-D ho ho


fmgaijin

5/13/2008
10:24:05

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Americans like Craig say . . .

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/ilo/, but it should probably be /elo/--when I was introduced to Arpad by the Latvian expatriate master Aleksander Liepnieks, that was how he pronounced it, and Arpad did not correct him *grin*! Any Hungarians want to give us the "final answer"?



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