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From: "Reiner Kerp" <>
Subject: Re: [POSEN] Polish letter "l" with a slash?
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 13:16:24 +0200
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Hello Diana Grzelak Needham,

> Reiner, I don't like to contradict you, but the Polish A
> does not sound like a U or an OU; neither does
> another letter with a diacritical mark before or
> following it cause the sound to change.

please excuse me, but what I wrote was misunderstandable.

"Schłar" in Polish is nearly exactly spoken like the English sure. It
is not the a (Schł>a<r) becoming u but the ł (Sch>ł<ar).
The a in many Polish words is hardly audable. It is phonetically a
voiceless a like the ending a in Bogumiła. In phonetic characters it
looks like an upside down and mirrored e. This sound appears also in
sure. In the word sure, the e at the end is not spoken but taken
"voiceless" before the r.

Gruß,

Reiner

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