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DeathcultAesthete t1_iqr8vy2 wrote

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

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

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[deleted] t1_iqrb1l9 wrote

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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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