From: Randall Buth (ButhFam@compuserve.com)
Date: Fri Jul 06 2001 - 06:46:58 EDT
Message text written by "Michael Haggett"
>MH:
>The biggest thing to avoid with upsilon is the natural English tendency to
>lengthen it to the omicron+upsilon sound in "boot" or "hoot". I always
keep
>it short as in "but" or "hut". But each to their own ...
Or better,
if you use rounded, high front vowel, like French "u", German umlaut 'u',
for both U and OI you will be like the first century.
those are easy to keep distinct from OU .
ERRWSQE
Randall Buth
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