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

When I was learning German at school, we pronounced
"eu" in "Leute" like in French "oeil". Only later I
discovered that many Germans seemed to pronounced it a
slightly different way, something between "oeil" and
"oy". But that never caused me the slightest problem.

--- Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> Quoting Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>:
>
> > > but I'm intrigued by eu~äu. As far as I'm aware,
> I've never met
> > > anyone distinguishing them, and I don't know
> what the distinction
> > > would be.
> >
> > Nor do I. AFAIK eu = äu = oi = oy; all four
> spellings have identical
> > pronunciations. (Borrowed words such as "Toilette"
> excepted.)
>
> I usually hear that pronounced as if "Teulette" ...
>
>
> Andreas
>

=====
Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)


		
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