Re: Pronouncing "HTML" (was: Results of Poll by Email No. 8)

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From: "Carlos Thompson" <chlewey@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: Pronouncing "HTML" (was: Results of Poll by Email No. 8)


> Christopher B Wright wrote:
>
> > /dublej uvej/ (Castiliano) or /dublej uBej/ (Latinoamericano)
> > is how you name "w".
>
> It is either /doble"be/ ("doble-ve") or /doble"u/ ("doble-u") for me in
> Colombian Spanish.  In Spain they say /ube"doble/ ("uve doble"), add
> standard fricatization or aproximation of voiced stops.  Note than in
> Spanish the /e/ is [e] withouth that diphthong [ej] phrasebooks suggest
> by "ay".
>
> I once heard in a comertial in Cable TV /doble"u doble"be ube"doble/ for
> WWW.  I thought it was nice.  In the media they usually say
> /tripledoble"u/ ("triple doble-u"), at least here in Colombia.
>
heh

I say /dublju dublju dublju/ [l] is syllabic