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Gormur wrote:Does the : lengthen the vowel or how does that work?
Naava wrote:Gormur wrote:Does the : lengthen the vowel or how does that work?
It does! 👍
Gormur wrote:So, it's like gay with? I thought it was more like go with
Gormur wrote:But linguoboy said æ:
I have no idea what that would be
Naava wrote:It seems Norwegian has long and short vowels, too. I don't speak Norwegian myself but this page says that er and her are pronounced with a long /æː/, whereas terminal has a short /æ/.
Gormur wrote:
Cheers for the link
I was curious about another word as well, so I looked up Cypriot. I can't believe they're saying it with an s. I say it with a k
Naava wrote:It follows the same rule as cycle, cyst, and cyan, which are also pronounced with an S rather than as kycle, kyst, and kyan. The only exception that I can think of is Celt (and Celtic), which can be pronounced with either S or K.
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