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- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Linux history...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.202355.19083@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 20:23:55 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.091234.6846@kth.se> <tlhilde.714770034@roby.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Followup-To: soc.culture.nordic
- Organization: University of Helsinki
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- tlhilde@roby.ecn.purdue.edu (Troy Hildebrand) writes:
- >d88-jwn@blofeld.nada.kth.se (Johan W}hlin) writes:
- >
- >Ok, while reading about different languages everybody speaks, i remembered a
- >question i have had for a *long* time:
- >
- >Exactly how do you pronounce '}' as in Johan's last name?
-
- For those people who see } as a right curly brace: it should be an a
- with a small circle on top. The pronounciation is roughly the same as
- the o in or.
-
- Then there is the letter {, which is (clearly :) an a with two dots on
- top. Its pronounciation depends on the word, but it is usually either
- like the a in anger, or like the e in elk.
-
- For the curious, there is also |, an o with two dots on top, but I can't
- think of any way to describe the pronounciation.
-
- The letters ], [, and \ are the capital respective versions.
-
- Followups redirected to soc.culture.nordic.
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- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi
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