Re: Maggel

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> Actually, its name is pronounced *completely* regularly according to
> the spelling rules of the language. However, it's an exception ;) .
> |maggel| (the Maggel alphabet doesn't feature capitals) is regularly
> pronounced [m@'gE:l]. If you want an irregular noun, take rather
> |imuohf|: cow. It's pronounced ['mbu:]. Don't even try to analyse the
> word's orthography, it's completely off the pronunciation. And it's
> not the worse example ;) .

Oh, why not? It seems pretty straight-forward: [u], especially before a
vowel, and [b] have much in common, as do [f] and [w] (and we all know
how trivial [ow]=>[u] is). It seems pretty trivial to me :)

The silent i- is the only thing that disturbs me, and that only slightly :)

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Tristan.