Re: Two questions about Esperanto

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:40:59PM -0700, Philippe Caquant wrote:
> Seems there is a very simple way to go around those
> Esperanto 'special letters', it's to use just 'x'
> after the letter, meaning there should be an accent on
> it (circumflex, but also that sort of small u, like in
> 'antau', I don't know how it is called):
In English, it's called a "breve".  The dictionaries give the
pronunciation as either /br\Ev/ or /br\iv/, but I've often heard it
pronounced /'brE.ve/, probably due to conflation with the Italian
musical term (e.g. "alla breve", meaning cut or 4/2 time).

-Marcos