Thanks & now I have a pronunciation question
Randall Buth
ButhFam at compuserve.com
Fri Jul 6 06:46:58 EDT 2001
Message text written by "Michael Haggett"
>MH:
>The biggest thing to avoid with upsilon is the natural English tendency to
>lengthen it to the omicron+upsilon sound in "boot" or "hoot". I always
keep
>it short as in "but" or "hut". But each to their own ...
Or better,
if you use rounded, high front vowel, like French "u", German umlaut 'u',
for both U and OI you will be like the first century.
those are easy to keep distinct from OU .
ERRWSQE
Randall Buth
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