Re: An incongruent orthography: Maggel
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 8, 2002, 9:56 |
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Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
> By the way, how would an English speaker
> pronounce the word "Maggel"? ['mAgl=]?
Almost certainly ['m&gl=]. What you write I would transcribe
"Moggle", but of course other anglophones would make that ['mOgl] or
the like: my version of English unrounds all short low vowels,
but not long low vowels.
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