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

From:Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 20, 2004, 16:47
I may be wrong, but it seems to me that in Alsace
(Elsass), "Leute" is pronounced more or less like
"Litt" ? Could you confirm ?

--- "J. 'Mach' Wust" <j_mach_wust@...> wrote:
> 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). > > To my ears, [Oy] isn't accurate. I think that [OY] > and [O2] are just the > same, since German [2] merges with [Y], being rather > [2_r] than plain [2]. > > >There might be some sense to the "oeil" > pronunciation, tho' > > Sure, this is the Alemannic pronunciation, and it's > not only found in the > dialects but even in some very rustic varieties of > Swiss standard German > (though these highly rustic varieties aren't used > often nowadays but among > old people or populistic politicians; schools have > adopted a more moderate > Swiss standard German). > > g_0ry@_^s: > j. 'mach' wust >
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