Friday, November 23, 2012

digraphs in German

Check this: http://blaoism.blogspot.com/2012/11/why-reuters-is-pronounced-way-it-is.html

au: Audi, Faust(ian), Strauss, Gauss, Schopenhauer, sauerkraut, meerschaum, Schaum (books), Braun, umlaut, ablaut
eu: Freud, Deutsch, Reuters, Schandenfreude, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
ei: Heineken, Heinz, Reinhardt, Weizmann
ey: Altzay, Bristol-Meyers
ai: Kaiser
ay: Bayreuth (a city name)
ie: Siemens

From wiki:

  • au[aʊ]
  • eu and äu[ɔʏ]
  • eiaiey, and ay[aɪ]


Long vowels: < VV >, < Vh >, < CC >



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