Name pronunciations

[Miriam Hardin]

I'm hoping someone on the list can answer a pronunciation question--well, two of them, actually.

1. Paola in _V._.  the first time I encountered the name, I thought of it as being pronounced like the word "payola."  This came from having lived not too far from Paoli, PA (pron. "pay-OH-lee).  But it occurred to me that "Paola" is the feminine version of "Paolo," and therefore pronounced more like "POW-la."  Is that correct?  I'm having a hard time shaking the habit of looking at the name and thinking "pay-OH-la."

2.  Frenesi in _Vineland_.  I initially thought of this name as being pronounce "Fruh-NAY-zee," but my diss director told me it's "FREH-nuh-zee."  I know it's the Spanish word for "frenzy," and when I looked it up on a couple of translation sites, I found it's rendered in Spanish as "frenesí" (in case the coding gets mangled, the final "i" has an accent).  Wouldn't this suggest the stress is on the final syllable?  And is it "freh-nay-ZEE," "fray-nay-ZEE," "freh-nuh-ZEE," or something else entirely?

Thanks,

Miriam


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