Re: Middle English question

On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, JOEL MATTHEW PEARSON wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>
> > I tend to pronounce Middle (and Early) English as if it were
> > dialect Dutch, and that works pretty well along the lines given
> > here. But what I was wondering about was, how are the diphtongues
> > pronounces, _ou_ especially? I guess /au/, but it might be /o/
> > or even /u/...
>
> It was /u/.  Speaking of which, how is "Boudewijn" pronounced?
>
> Matt.
>
That makes six... I've never, ever, met a foreigner (except
for Flemish Belgians, of course), who did know, and therefore
I've put up a small real-audio file with the pronounciation
of my name at:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/cv.html

In my variant of ascii-IPA, it's /baud@wein/, or something
like that ;-).

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt