It's not quite Cyrillic, but slavic do have characters we don't, yes?

Yeah, like the one that looks like an L with a cross. Lech Walesa = Vah-wen-sa, no?

I'm also wondering if a law school gets big ups for its team winning

Oh, it certainly does. It's the sort of thing that goes in the alumni newsletter, and on the catalogs and website. "Our students won the International Human Rights Moot Court!" Usually with a picture of the team.

If your thing is international human rights and the school trained students better than any in the world on arguing human rights before a body of respected judges and lawyers, that's something that will draw you to the school. That they even have a human rights moot court team to begin with would be considered unusual.

While I was in law school, we had mock trial classes, and moot court, and then there was a special seminar on environmental moot court, and those people competed with other law schools in the region or nationally. It's a whole thing, like law review: you do a ton of work, and learn a lot, and get credit for it (I think).

I ask because the University of the West Indies just won for the second year in a row (beating Yale) this year, and I was wondering if it's something that Yale loses any sleep over, or anyone cares about, because it's the least important Moot Court ever.

Bully for them!

I suspect most of Yale doesn't lose any sleep over it, because they're Yale. They have enough prizes. But good for UWI, and yes, it does speak well of their training.

When a box of loose tea falls apart, it makes a very large mess. I'm hiding from it now.

My last name was originally gaelic. The real pronunciation has been pretty much universally abandoned. It should be pronounced dee-EL. The 'z' in the middle of the name is there because the 'z' looks sorta like the gaelic letter that should really be there, but they are completely different and have a totally different sound to them. Ah fun with names.

no pohn checky at Central Market by me. I will make do with donuts.

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AKA, give thanks the Great Schism. It made alphabets weird.

The real pronunciation has been pretty much universally abandoned. It should be pronounced dee-EL. The 'z' in the middle of the name is there because the 'z' looks sorta like the gaelic letter that should really be there, but they are completely different and have a totally different sound to them. Ah fun with names.

I think the Parish of the same name is still pronounced correctly. Not that I've contact with any of the family there to confirm it. (Grandpa's Aunts were there, but that branch of the family doesn't talk, not even when they're in the same bloody town.)

I have heard the Czech pronunciation of my name, but I can't replicate it.