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Lofty Goat wrote:
On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 04:24:10 +0100, "jer0en" wrote: you cannot pronounce kuiper outside dutch the vowel is unique to the language “ui” is not a vowel in Dutch, but a diphtong. I feel better now, then. I am not sure whether this is sarcasm, so JFTR: “now” in English is pronounced /naʊ/. “Kuiper” in English is pronounced /ˈkaɪpər/. “Kuiper” in the original Dutch is pronouced /ˈkœypər/ instead, and /œy/ sounds slightly different than the /aʊ/ that you might have referred to. However, there is at least one language that also has the /œy/ sound or at least something very close: Scottish English, as in “house”. The pronunciation of the name of the astronomer Gerard Peter Kuiper (b. Gerrit Pieter Kuiper) is tainted by the fact that he was born in the Netherlands, but lived most of his life in the Americas, particularly in the United States of America where he taught at the University of Chicago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language#Vowels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language#Diphthongs https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/now#Pronunciation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Kuiper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Dutch F’up2 sci.astro PointedEars -- A neutron walks into a bar and inquires how much a drink costs. The bartender replies, "For you? No charge." (from: WolframAlpha) |
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