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Posted by Alargule on Mon Sep 4 17:42:00 2006, in response to Re: A (dumb) Question on Pronunciation, posted by AlM on Sun Sep 3 14:15:49 2006. "New Utrecht" or "Nieuw Utrecht" (geography lesson: Utrecht is a town some 25 miles southeast of Amsterdam): "nieuw" is actually pronounced as "new", but then the standard English way, not with the Noo Yohk accent...;) The pronunciation of the 'u' is right: similar to the German 'ü'. The 'ch' should be that gurgling/spitting sound - a sound you can also find in Hebrew (I believe it's called 'gimel' there). Or, when you want to pronounce it the way I do, similar to the 'ch' sound in the German 'ich'.The 'uy' sound is unique to Dutch pronunciation. In the international phonetic alphabet, it's transcribed as [oey]. Until this day, I haven't met a foreigner who could pronounce it the right way... |
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