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

From:Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 6, 2001, 14:16
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!