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HamaHamaWamaSlama t1_iqr4lfh wrote

Reply to comment by koloki8a in Utopia”: meaning ‘no place’; from Greek: οὐ (not’) and τόπος (‘place’) by Sphaerocypraea

“Ου” is not pronounced like “u”, it is pronounced like “oo” (not “o-o”, but “oo”, as in boom). The “ευ” in “eutopia” is pronounced like “ef”.

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koloki8a t1_iqrb0an wrote

Agreed yeah, I didn’t mean the english “u” but the latin “u” (same as italian “u”) are pronounced like the greek “ου”

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DeathcultAesthete t1_iqr8vy2 wrote

Following the IPA, <ou> is indeed pronounced as /u/.

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DeathcultAesthete t1_iqred5r wrote

// indicate phonemes, the way a sound is presented within the speaker’s mind. <> indicate orthography. <u> in English is pronounced as /ju/, whereas <oo> as /u/. This distinction illustrates how orthography and pronunciation are two different things.

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