Re: Special letters

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:17:13 GMT, "Big Al, \(Iso Allo\)"
<pauli.kesti-i-like-dinosaurs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Lars Eighner wrote:
>> In our last episode,
>> <5hoQe.405$%A.366@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> the lovely and talented Big Al, (Iso Allo)
>> broadcast on alt.usage.english:
>>
>>> How must be pronounced of these "special" letters:
>>> Î î
>>> Ï ï
>>> Ý ý
>>> Ã ã
>>> Ô ô
>>> and:
>>> Ë ë
>>
>>> I'am grateful, if some people(s) can tell me.
>>
>> None of these letters is native to English, so their
>> pronunciation depends up the language of the word in which they
>> occur.
>>
>> Sometimes vowels in English are marked with the diaeresis, which
>> in most typography is indistinguishable from the umlaut. The
>> diaeresis is only a reminder that the vowel is pronounced.
>> This convention is no longer common and it was never
>> intended to indicate that vowel had a different quality.
>
>Tarkoitin siis sitä, miten nämä äänteet lausutaan.

"What I meant then, was how does one sound these letters." (I think)

I don't think that as English speakers, we do ever.

If you had some words in which the letters occurred, then we would know what
language they were in, and might suggest the right sound.
--
Jim
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reproducing at bacterial levels, almost as an
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