From: Steve Long (steve@allegrographics.com)
Date: Thu May 20 1999 - 11:34:36 EDT
>{Jim}
>More like EE-YA-SOUS where the double e's signify a long e sound and ya
>signify almost an iota/yod vocalic.
>
>{Bill}
>Jim, are you sure it wouldn't be two vowels? I'd heard that when a word
>begins with Iota, in actual practice it tends to be pronounced like a Y -
>sort of like Yea-soos.
>
If you want to use Modern pronunciation add a little z sound to the middle
s and make a long e sound, Yee-zhoos.
Steve
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