Re: Pronouncing "HTML" (was: Results of Poll by Email No. 8)
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 29, 2002, 15:15 |
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On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 02:27:11 -0500 Danny Wier <dawier@...>
writes:
> From: "Steg Belsky" <draqonfayir@...>
> > Hmm... i have a habit of pronouncing "HTML" as the shorter
> two-syllable
> > /hUtmAL/, with a somewhat /?/-afied /t/, somewhat rounded /A/,
> and velarized /L/. I also pronounce "www" /wUwUwU/.
> You mean /U/ or /V/, the latter of which I would probably use. I'm
> thinking
> of /wu:w/ for WWW, having in mind a more Welsh-like realization....
> ~Danny~ (happy birthday, Seinfeld!)
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Definitely /U/. The entire sequence is rounded, probably because it's
easier to keep all the sounds very close than to have to open the mouth
wider and unround the lips in order to get /V/.
-Stephen (Steg)
"el chico está tocando la guitarra."