Re: USAGE: German VhC pronunciation

Hello!

From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@...>
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: USAGE: German VhC pronunciation

 > Mark P. Line scripsit:
 >
 > > The digraph 'aa' occurs in
 > > 'Staat', but I can't think of more examples for that one either.)
 >
 > Poking through
 > ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/doc/dict/german-wordlist.new.gz ,
 > which is just a wordlist, not a dictionary, I find the following roots
 > (capitalizations are lost): staat, paar, saat, saal, haar, waage,
 > waagen, isaak, maar, maas, aal, staal.

I only know "Wagen" (car/cart) or "wagen" (to dare) and "Stahl" (steel)
or "stahl" (stole). "Maas" and "Isaak" are names. The one is a river in
the Netherlands IIRC, pronounced [ma:s]. "Isaak" is from the Bible, IIRC
a son of Jacob and is pronounced ["iza.?ak].

A completely irregular indication of a long vowel is in "Duisburg" and
"Soest": [dy:s.bU6k] and [zo:st].

Anyway, it's right, words with a double vowel are pretty rare.
And Philip Newton, I'd say even ["fARAt] in everyday speech.

--Carsten

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