Re: How to Make Chicken Cacciatore (was: phonetics by guesswork)

Andreas Johansson wrote:


>
> Most of my books write [O2] - I've also seen [OY] and [Oy] (the last not being
> meaningfully different from [OH], I guess).
>
> My pronunciation is probably best indicated as [OH].
>
> There might be some sense to the "oeil" pronunciation, tho' - I'm led to believe
> that the traditional Prussian pronunciation is [@j]. Some Swedish names of North
> German extraction, has [2j] for 'eu', supposedly deriving from this Prussian
> pronunciation (Swedes tending to rephonematicize stressed, or half-stressed,
> [@] as /2/).
>
>                                                      Andreas
>
>

NB that inherited Swedish words don't have /oj/, but there are
a few with /2j/.

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