Özil 's magic left foot - - orwas it Oezil's?

[Joel S. Berson]

Thanks.  And apparently closer to the German
o-umlaut than the English "oh", despite the ESPN announcers.

Joel

At 6/24/2010 02:51 PM, Lisa Galvin wrote:
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>the pronunciation of "ou" in "could", "should"
>(or the "oo" in "foot", the "u" in "put"),
>though those are rough examples, since of course
>the pronunciation of these words differs depending on your English.
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> > Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:26:13 -0400
> > From: Berson at ATT.NET
> > Subject: Re: [ADS-L] Re: Özil's magic left foot -- or was it Oezil's ?
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> > My tongue doesn't go around French either. Can you illustrate with
> > some American word I know how to pronounce? :-)
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> > At 6/24/2010 01:43 PM, Jim Parish wrote:
> > >Arnold Zwicky wrote:
> > > > yes, it's a mid front rounded vowel.
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> > >Right, right, I forgot to include [+front]. Damn three-dimensional
> > >diagrams....
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> > >Jim Parish
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