Re: YAPT: Dutch ij and ui

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 05:54:20 -0700, Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>
wrote:

>There certainly are official names for all these
>sounds, which are very specific of Dutch. But since
>you've been in the Netherlands, why didn't you stop
>somebody on the street and ask him to pronounce them
>himself in front of you ? Or ask in a shop ? You would
>have got first hand information.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaah! Right, I could have done that :|