2009-01-02 - 1:15 p.m. You can download Jay Bennett's new alboom for freeeee. Georges Bizet came up in conversation yesterday, and I had some hazy, crazy memory of being told that his last name, though French, had come to be pronounced "Bizz-ette" rather than "Biz-eh." In googling "Bizet pronunciation," I found this awesome site Forvo featuring dour but impossibly good-looking scholars* intoning difficult words for the good of speakers of all languages. (It's "Bizeh" after all.) Check out the exciting sound clips "Xavier Ribas," "hintergrunt," "serhat,""islenska" and many, many more! * I can't verify this thoughts? (6 comments so far) previous - next blog archive contact