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Re: Maggel

From:Tristan Mc Leay <kesuari@...>
Date:Sunday, June 6, 2004, 14:25
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 :) -- Tristan.