Re: CHAT: Tacos et al.

Quoting Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>:

>  --- Muke Tever <alrivera@...> wrote:
> > Actually isn't <oe> often also Anglicized as "long A" /ei/ ?
Not Anglicized; many German dialects have unrounded front
round vowels. You can see this clearly, for example, in
most of Schiller's poetry:

  Aus der Wahrheit Feuerspiegel  Out of the mirror of truth
  Lächelt sie den Forscher an.   she smiles on the explorer.
  Zu der Tugend steilem Hügel    To the arduous hill of virtue
  Leitet sie des Dulders Bahn.   she leads the course of the
           (_An die Freude_)        Sufferer.    (To Joy)

<Hügel> and <Feuerspiegel> do not rhyme in Standard German;
they do for Schiller.

> Could you provide an example? At the moment, I can think of
`moebius' and 'Schroedinger'(sp), both of which have /8u/ (~=/ou/)

In nativized speech I've always heard [moubi@s] for <möbius>, while
I have heard both [SreidiNgr=] and [SroudiNgr=] for <Schrödinger>.

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