Re: Butterflies
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 18, 2003, 17:54 |
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On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 12:35:48PM -0400, Roger Mills wrote:
> _w_ is to _u_ as _ [H]_ is to [y], or more simply, [H] is the "semi-vowel"
> version of the high front rounded vowel [y] (Germ. written ü)
Oh. In that case I have been pronouncing French <ui> as [Hi] and
didn't even know it. Merci. :)
> > BTW, what's a "jod"?
> [jod] Just another name for a palatal semi-vowel [j] or written "y" in Engl.
> etc. (From its name in the Hebrew alphabet; cf. Greek iota)
Oh, you mean a yod. Why didn't you say so? :)
-Mark