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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