Re: Name mangling (Was: Re: First Sound Recording of Asha'ille!)

From:    Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
> It's the diphthong in the first syllable of the Esperanto word for
> Europe (Eŭropo), for example, but I think that even in Esperanto, [Ew]
> (spelled |eŭ|) is uncommon. And off the top of my head, I can't think
> of any other language that has [Ew],
Plains cree has it all over the place. So does Lak. Phaleran
has it, but it's not frequent. :)  Interestingly, although in
basilectal Chicagoan English /&/ is broken into [e&] or even [i&],
as in [ke&t], the [&] in /au/ surfaces as [&w] like in most American
dialects.

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From:    Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...>
> But what am I saying? Surely <Europa>, <auto> and other borrowings have
> diphthongs, <Europa> with [Ew]. I'm not sure though.
I'm pretty sure that the E-o word <auto> does not have [Ew], but
straightforwardly [au].


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