Re: Love Those Double Vowels (was: Diving In...)

From: "Lars Henrik Mathiesen" <thorinn@...>
> > We're not allowed to spell it all in once piece with or without the
> > diaeresis any more, alas. In the new spelling it's "zee-eend". O
> > tempora, o mores.
>
> Well, before 1948, we had smaaaal in Danish: little eels. But now it's
> småål. Phonemically, it's just two vowels anyway. Someone can probably
> come up with a similar compound in English.
Okay.  "zoooocyte" - something like "animal egg cell".


    *Muke!