Walter Meyer, adding his two cents: >>>If all (or almost all) Hungarian words are stressed on the first syllable, >>>then what does the thing that looks like an acute accent do to the >>>pronunciation of Barto'k's name? >> >>It alters the quality of the vowel, not the accent on the vowel. O' o' >>(accent aigu, in French, but we can't show it in ASCII here) simply >>denotes a long o, as in the English word 'show.' > >You mean his name is not pronounced "bar talk"? Apparently, it's "bar toke." A seedier dive, apparently. Steve Schwartz