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Date:      Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:03:06 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Regulated names (was: Crazy Laws)
Message-ID:  <19981229100306.L12346@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19981228181221.I53810@follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 06:12:21PM %2B0100
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On Monday, 28 December 1998 at 18:12:21 +0100, Eivind Eklund wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 10:03:10AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
>> On Sunday, 27 December 1998 at 11:29:00 -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
>>> At 01:25 PM 12/27/98 -0500, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
>>>
>>>> pah-ehh-yah is more like it...
>>>
>>> Somewhere in between, I think. It's not QUITE pronounced
>>> as a short "e".
>>
>> It's difficult to know what sounds you're thinking of.  But apart from
>> some obscure southern German dialects, English is the only European
>> language that makes much use of diphthongs such as `ay'.  Spanish
>> makes it very clear in the spelling when it does.
>
> *Zot*

Ouch.

> You're forgetting norwegian again.  E.g, in my name (where ei is a
> diphthong, pronounced somewhat like 'æj' where 'æ' is like the first
> sound of 'at').

OK, I promise not to do it again.

Greg
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