Re: RV: Old English
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 31, 2000, 0:17 |
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On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Padraic Brown wrote:
>On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, John Cowan wrote:
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>>BP Jonsson wrote:
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>>> Agree. How would you Anglos pronounce Skien, BTW?
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>>The regular pronunciation of "ie", except finally, is /i:/, so /ski:n/ would
>>be expected. (Derivatives of words with final "ie", like "dies", are an
>>exception.)
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>I've always heard (and oh so commonly used) [ske:n].
Well, there's me confusing skein and Skien. For the former (loosely
wrapped yarn) I have, as noted, [ske:n]. For the latter, I've only
ever seen it in the dictionary as [Si:n] or [Se:n].
Padraic.