On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 20:24, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 01:28:20PM +0200, Florian Quetting wrote: > > Hello, > > after reading lots of documentations, I'm still not sure of one thing: > > How do You pronounce the word "hird" ? I think to know how to > > pronounce the Hurd, but what about hird ;-? > > The "obvious" pronunciation, at least in my country, would be the > same as "Hurd", cf. "bird", "curd". > > Ben
I pronounce hird as 'herd' but with a slight short -i sound forced into the e. The two sounds are overlayed, not concatinated as in a dipthong. That's not a sound that is easy to make without practice (at least for English speakers) as it is not in out phoneme set. -------------------------------------------------------- Glenn Alexander - The man with no surname and a silly hat. (B.Teach, B.Ed Major IT Education, University of Wollongong Australia) (Now avaliable in China!) http://members.ozemail.com.au/~glenalec (last update: 2001.07.29) I use GNU/Linux: http://www.gnu.org / http://www.linux.org from Debian: http://www.debian.org and KDE : http://www.kde.org -------------------------------------------------------- Fight software piracy. Use GNU! [ http://www.gnu.org ] -------------------------------------------------------- The above message was bought to you by 'sigrot'
