saying "umlaut" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Tom Zurinskas]

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I maintain that there are few words that start with short oo (as in good ho=
ok).  In the paragraph below I wonder which are the long oo's (~ue as in tr=
ue) and short oo's (~oo as in good) as the first vowel in certain words.  I=
'll check the how the speakers say it in thefreedictionary.com
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Oops=2C Tom=2C I think you've made a mistake there. There's oodles andoodle=
s of such words. My cousin=2C who lives in Ooltewah TN=2C couldprobably tel=
l you some=2C over a cup of oolong tea (she makes it strong --it packs an o=
omph=2C and just oozes flavor)=3B or if you like a strongerbeverage=2C a cu=
p of ouzo. Don't make her mad=2C though=2C or she'll shootyou with her Uzi =
(she bought it in Uzbekistan from an Uzbek). She's anOuspenskian philosophe=
r=2C and wrote her thesis on the worm Ourobouros. (I really do have a cousi=
n that lives in Ooltewah. The rest is BS . ..)
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1.  oops  ~ueps
2.  oodles  ~uedools  (strangely said with an ending ~s not ~z) ~ool as in =
wool
3.  ooltewah  ?
4.  oolong  ~uelaang  (awe-dropping speaker says ~laang but should be ~laun=
g
5.  oomph  ~uemf
6.  ooze  ~uez
7.  ouzo   ~uezoe
8.  uzi   ~uezee
9.  Uzbekistan  ~Uezbbekistan
10.  Uzbek   ~Uezbak
11.  Ouspensky  ~Uesppenskee
12.  ourobouros  ?
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All these words as I hear them in thefreedictionary.com start with long oo =
(~ue) as in "food" not short oo (~oo) as in "good".


Tom Zurinskas=2C USA - CT20=2C TN3=2C NJ33=2C FL7+
see truespel.com phonetic spelling












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> Date: Fri=2C 9 Oct 2009 15:50:49 -0500
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>> Interestly "umlaut" has multiple pronunciations.
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>> At forvo.com=2C enter "umlaut"=2C click on the resulting first word (not
>> arrow)=2C see three pronunciations:
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> Is this evidence that "umlaut" does=2C in fact=2C have three different
> pronunciations=2C or that forvo.com was able to recruit three yahoos to
> speak a word two of whom didn't know how to pronounce properly?
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>> 1 ~oomlout (where ~oo is as in "good" ~ou as in "out"=2C spoken by
>> topquark
>> 2. ~oomlou' (where "t" is dropped or glottalized) spoken by threb
>> 3. ~oomllaat (stress second syl=2C with ~aa as in "Saab"=2C spoken by
>> Olbill.
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>> It's pretty rare in English to have a word start with ~oo.
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> Oops=2C Tom=2C I think you've made a mistake there. There's oodles and
> oodles of such words. My cousin=2C who lives in Ooltewah TN=2C could
> probably tell you some=2C over a cup of oolong tea (she makes it strong -=
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> it packs an oomph=2C and just oozes flavor)=3B or if you like a stronger
> beverage=2C a cup of ouzo. Don't make her mad=2C though=2C or she'll shoo=
t
> you with her Uzi (she bought it in Uzbekistan from an Uzbek). She's an
> Ouspenskian philosopher=2C and wrote her thesis on the worm Ourobouros.
>
> (I really do have a cousin that lives in Ooltewah. The rest is BS . .
> .)
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>> Tom Zurinskas=2C USA - CT20=2C TN3=2C NJ33=2C FL7+
>> see truespel.com phonetic spelling
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