Israel

[Herb Stahlke]

The rounding comes from the final /l/, which, in most of both American
and British English, has some rounding. That colors the vowel a bit,
but not enough to make it a high back lax vowel as you transcribe it.
The m-w site has more of a rounded schwa pronunciation, which is
pretty common.

Herb

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> As I say "Israel" a few times the same as said in m-w.com, ~Izreeyool, I think there's lip rounding starting at the y glide and continuing through the ~ool.  I think the short oo ~oo creates the lip rounding because "yell" ~yel does not.
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>> Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 11:20:01 +0800
>> From: strangeguitars at GMAIL.COM
>> Subject: Israel
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>> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
>>> from w-m.com for "Isreal" I hear ~Izreeyool, where ~yool rhymes with "wool".
>>> Main Entry:Is·ra·el
>>> Pronunciation:\ˈiz-rē-əl, -(ˌ)rā- also ˈis- or ˈiz-rəl\
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>> Do you pronounce Isreal with your "~yool"? With lip rounding on the /l/?
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