[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In English, it's ['junIkowd]. Think "unicycle" or
"unilateral" or "universal". And the "code" part
is the root word "code".
Quod dixit, dixit.
As for "unique", well, why doesn't "one" rhyme with
"stone", "bone", and "alone"?
Because some people thought it was
Because some people thought it was clever to adopt a nonce pronunciation
of "one" /Own/, namely /wVn/, and it stuck.
Nah, surely it was drawling. Old English [a:n] Middle English [o:n],
breaking under stress and so on to [u:@n] then transitioning to [wVn].
Michael Everson ** Everson Gunn
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