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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Anounsing a nu Ingglish spelling
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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 19:50:39 GMT
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In article <tg3evw2nyb.fsf@noise.bsd.uchicago.edu>,
Darrin Edwards  <edwards@noise.bsd.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>Tom Wier <Tomaso.Houston@postoffice.worldnet.att.net> writes:
>
>> Even though you were being facetious, I will point out that [nu:] is the common
>> phonetic value for almost *all* speakers of the languages.  It has everything
>> to do with English spelling if you want it to be reflective the actual spoken
>> language, which after all, takes precedence over the written. Obviously it seems
>> that many here don't care, or seem to care, about the needs of the majority of the
>> people learning English, whether they be native or foreign.   
>> 
>
>But "new" doesn't rhyme with the pronunciation of the Greek letter "nu" (as
>a Greek person would pronounce it), 

Of course not.  Unless the Greek speaker in question is one of a miniscule
number who still speak some version of Old Athenian dialect, he calls this
letter [ni].

>or with the (Russian) pronunciation of the Russian word "nu" (meaning
>"Well...").

Russian?  Russian?  Nu, dos iz vos mir gonts nay!

What does a language written in Cyrillic script have to do with the
orthography of English anyway?  HY?

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