Re: Transcriptions of "Unicode"

[Richard Cook]

Michael Everson wrote:
> 
> >The stress is definitely on the first syllable. One does hear some normal
> >generative English variations such as Ë�junÉ�Ë�koË*d. (schwa instead of
> >short-i),
> 
> The pronuncuation ['juni:ko:d] with [i:] or [i] instead of schwa irritates
> me a lot. No one would pronounce "universe" with an [i].
> 
I agree. I just don't understnad why people would want to say
['juni:ko:d]. These same people seem to want to pronounce GIF and
Gigabyte as though they were spelt JIFF and Jigabyte :-)

-R