Re: sending mail to the list

Christophe Grandsire wrote:


> En réponse à SuomenkieliMaa <suomenkieli@...>:
>
>>  If you know Finnish, you know "y" is like the "ew" of
>> the English word "Jew" and "a:" (which is actual "a"
>> with the diaersis or umlaut above it) is like the
>> American/Midwest pronunciation of the "a" of the
>> English name "Abbey".  Hence, it is called "v-ew-a".
>
>
> He he, the first one I cannot differentiate from a French "ou" or Spanish "u",
No, actually Finnish "y" is IPA /Y/, a laxed version of French "u".
The reference to "Jew" is because /ju/ is the regular English approximation
of /y/.

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