Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 11:09:55 -0500
From: Mark Mandel Mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DRAGONSYS.COM
Subject: "Nagano"

My co-worker who is a native Japanese speaker pronounces it with higher pitch on
the first syllable than on the other
two, which sounds in English like stress on the first.

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