From: "Tristan Alexander McLeay" <anstouh@...>
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Anton Sherwood wrote:
>
> > Michael Poxon wrote:
> > > Rottweiler seems to be one of those "foreign words in transit";
> > > I pronounce the disputed section of the word.../vai/... as, presumably,
> > > German speakers do.
> >
> > Most Americans say /wai/, to answer Tristan's question.
>
> Okay, thanks (I, and most if not all Aussies, say /wi:/)
Even though it's <-weiler> and not <-wieler> ?
> > America has a huge German-descended population,
> > and so <ei> /ai/ is very familiar from other loanwords.
> > (Yet <oe> and <eu> generally become /o:/ and /ju:/.)
>
> Yes, well /o:/ would be the closest equivalent of the vowel <oe> stands
> for in American, wouldn't it? (Personally, I borrow that vowel as /3:\/,
> but that's by no means standard.)
Actually isn't <oe> often also Anglicized as "long A" /ei/ ?
*Muke!