Once upon a time all dipthongs were pronounced so that each vowel
sound was distinct - still does sometimes as in the Geordie
pronounciation of boat as 'bow-at'. Spending time condemned to study
Middle and Old English learned me that.
So you know where you can stick your diaeretic umlaut!
AndrewF
On 23/12/2005, at 9:53 PM, Piers Hemy wrote:
>
> Nice word, but fully up to your expectations.
>
> The word diæresis includes a digraph as the third character, and an
> example
> of a diæresis is over the second character of aïl signifying that
> the sound
> of the "a" and "i" is NOT a diphthong (i.e. that "a" and "i" are
> separate
> sounds).
>
> Perhaps linguists are cunning. Perhaps also linguists pull stunts,
> and
> whether those are cunning is another matter entirely.
>
> --
> Piers
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf
> Of Jez Cunningham
> Sent: 23 December 2005 09:51
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
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>
>
> Oops - wrist slapped.
> But I realise I meant to write diaeresis - I expect that's wrong
> too :-( I
> bow to all the cunning linguists on the list...
> br
> jez
>
> On 12/23/05, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> That's not a diphthong, it's a digraph!
>>
>>
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