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Re: CHAT: Names of Latin alphabet letters

From:Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Friday, January 26, 2001, 7:41
At 3:56 pm -0500 25/1/01, John Cowan wrote:
>Raymond Brown wrote: > > >> SV is sometimes /su/ as in SVM and, less often, /sw/ as in SVADERE. >> Therefore, in theory, SVI could be ambiguous. In practice only /sui:/ >> exists in the language. > >Does the word "sui" end in a long vowel, or is the colon an error, or >what?
A long vowel; the preceeding /u/ is short. [sUi:] Ray. ========================================= A mind which thinks at its own expense will always interfere with language. [J.G. Hamann 1760] =========================================