Pronunciation of legal terms / Aussprache von englischen Rechtsbegriffen
am 01.11.2007 von Transblawg
The Talking Law Dictionary mentioned a few days ago is accompanied by a CD-ROM with famous lawyers from all over pronouncing terms. When you look up a term, you can see a photo and bio of the speaker. Some notes:
Why have a Scottish lawyer, albeit one who sat in the House of Lords for many years, pronounce trust terms?
cestui que trust
Of course, Lord Hope of Craighead also pronounces wherefore with the hw at the beginning, which may work well in the USA too.
que should sound like kee, cestui like setter, not chetty. After checking with some colleagues, I concluded it should be pronounced (in Britain) settee key trust, but that in order to know this, you have to have heard it from someone at a law school.
pur autre vie is pronounced by Stephen Breyer - I presume the end of autre is different from the English pronunciation there (sounds French rather than oter)
autrefois acquit / convict: same remark, Irish speaker
Association of Australian Magistrates - pronounced by an Australian. Great listening
lien - correctly two syllables (I didnt realize that Konrad Schiemann lost both his parents in WWII and lived in the UK from the age of nine)
ab initio? Lord Rodger of Earlferry volenti non fit injuria
No pronunciation for Taoiseach, cathaoirleach or ceann comhairle
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Richter
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Chasuble
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