On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:29:59 +0100, Alfred Molon
wrote:
>In article , Tim C. says...
>> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:05:38 +0100, Alfred Molon
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Funny that the
>> >vowels in English are pronounced as "ei", "i", "ai", "öu" and "iu".
>>
>> No, that's the "names" of the vowels.
>
>and how they are pronounced in English in a large number of words.
Fair enough - I misunderstood you.
I doubt you can show many languages where the letters in the written
form is always exactly pronounced the same way.
Except maybe the so-called written forms of those languages that have
been recently described and had a phonetic script assigned to them.
it seems even half the German-speaking world can't or won't
distinguish between "P" / "B" or "T" / "D".
>> Just like "ess-tsett" is not how "ß" is pronounced in German.
>
>ess-zet is a name, while ei, i, ai, öu and iu are how the vowels are
>pronounced in a large number of English words. Unfortunately the
>pronounciation of the vowels depends on the words in English -
And on which part of the country the speaker comes from etc.
Grass, scones...etc.
>they made a transliteration mistake when they defined how English should be
>spelled.
Nobody defined how it should be spelled. |