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From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 21, 2000, 13:01
At 12:21 20.6.2000 +0200, Christophe Grandsire wrote:

>It is identified with 'a' in all languages I know who lack this vowel >(that's too say the Romance languages and Japanese). It is done in >Esperanto too (it's not that nothing is said in the Fundamento that there >are no rules. They just have been settled by the users and are now followed >by the majority, and now you begin to find them in grammars).
The American English _cut_ vowel is "ö" in Swedish, and that has nothing to do with Russian unstressed ë sounding like "ö" to us in most cases! /BP B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melroch@mail.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ A h-ammen pennuid i phith! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ____ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /Melarocco\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine__ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ Gwaedhvenn Angelmiel\ \_____/ / a/ /_adar Merthol naun ~~~~~~~~~Cuinondil~~~\_______/~~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda cuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)