Quoting Jaime Headden <ja_headden@qilong.8m.com>: > I follow the Romanian convention, and that a > partially fricative "sh", as in "z" + "sh." Hence, the form of the name of > the Baron von Nopsca I use is NAHP-sha, Probably the closest you'll get using English phonetics is "NOPE-chah". Nick Pharris Department of Linguistics University of Michigan