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how to pronounce “samhain”

Thursday 7 April 2005 | someone left a cookie

I’ve always said SAH-win—since I was about seven, that is, and was taught the word—but these people from the Black Phoenix forums have lots of thoughts about something called voiced bilabial fricatives, and whether you should say SOO-ven, or SOW-when. It all makes my head hurt, post-big extravagant spending on $95 pair of Josef Seibel [...]

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