Re: no real problem
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.
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