Re: OT: Intergermansk - Traveller's Phrasebook

Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> Quoting Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>:
>> you = ee-oo. That's a vowel sound in my reality.
>
> You spell it with a hyphen and still insists it's *one* sound? That's fairly
> original.
Not really.  [ju] is two phonemes, but together patterns as a single
sound in English, just like /eI/, /oU/, etc. (ObYAEPT-warding: for those
who have them).  In schools it is often taught as a single sound, "long
u", and is symbolized by a u with a macron.

	*Muke!
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