Date:  Mon, 6 Mar 1995 12:59:22 -0500

From:  Ron Rabin <RABINRL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SNYBUFAA.CS.SNYBUF.EDU>

Subject: Turkey's name



I don't know why an "-ije" spelling of Turkey's name would better reflect

the way it's either spelled or pronounced in Turkish.



In Turkish, the name of the country is Turkiye (the u is "noktali," i.e.,

with umlauts and is pronounced as is the French u in "vu"). Aside

from the u, an English speaker would pronounce the name of the country

phonetically as it's spelled in Turkish and it would sound, more or less,

as it does when pronounced by a speaker of Turkish.