Re: RV: Old English
| From: | Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 31, 2000, 0:41 |
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At 11:46 AM 3/30/2000 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
>BP Jonsson wrote:
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> > Agree. How would you Anglos pronounce Skien, BTW?
>
>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.)
Huh, I never knew there was a regular pronounciation of <ie> in English. I
would probably render it /ai/ in a spelling pronunciation unless I knew the
word was foreign.