So how does one pronounce "Progne" anyway?

[Fred Kaluza~MI]

Is it like the big city in Czechkoslovakia "or is even that renamed now to Slovenia or Bosnia or something" combined with that big joint in your leg between the calf and the thigh? Hey I bet you couldn't spell Chek-o-slo-vok-eee-ah either! Oh yeah and I think Bombay is gone and Burma too along with Lenningrad and Cape Kennedy and Tanzania. I can't keep buying new World Atlas's every year! Have you seen how expensive that big monster is from Rand McNally! Sheesh!

[Steve Kroenke]

Fred,

I heard it pronounced just once by someone who may know what he is saying! Here is what I heard: "prog" (as in "prognosis") and then "knee". Of course, this could be wrong.

Steve

[CUL Lou~Mich]

I've heard it a couple of times pronounced as Steve states. I've never heard it pronounced otherwise. CUL Lou

[Emil Pampell-Tx]

Fred, I remember a college prof that put this question on an electrical engr course exam, and it counted 10%, thought it was odd, spell the name of of the Russian leader. KHRUSHCHEV, if you don't remember he was a Russian leader. His reasoning was that we need to pay attention to current names & events, and it would help you. Burma is easy for me, my brother fought on the China-Burma road (in India) during the war

Now I married a Czech girl, I will let her spell those names..ha ha

[Fred Kaluza~MI]

Thanks for the Prog Nee Everybody...Fred from Myanmar.