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

> > Yep yep yep!  Romanian uses {iii} in several common
> > words, though no
> > other triple vowels.  The combination is pronounced
> > [iji], and occurs
> > most commonly in {copiii} meaning "the children" and
> > {fiii} meaning "the
> > sons."
>
> Really, never knew that.  Is {fiii} pronounced like
> the French {fille} then, I guess?
Um, I'm not sure how the French pronounce anything, but Rom {fiii} is
['fiji].  LIkewise {copiii} is [ko'piji]


Jesse S. Bangs     Pelíran
jaspax@ juno.com
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Some of us are clowns" --Counting Crows

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