Re: CHAT: Names of Latin alphabet letters
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 26, 2001, 7:41 |
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At 3:56 pm -0500 25/1/01, John Cowan wrote:
>Raymond Brown wrote:
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>> 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.
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