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--- Anton Sherwood <bronto@hidden.email> wrote: > Padraic Brown wrote: > > . . . There's > > nothing worse than wading through pages of > > phonologic descriptions like "sounds sorta like A > > in laugh". . . . Well... I described the name of the Thaff (people who speak Etabnanni; Et. _tab_ /Ta_Lf/) as using the 'a' of laugh, but that was intentional :) > Seeing the actual text spelled with "ee ay ah oh oo", > to make it "easy" for anglophones, comes close. Indeed; my younger brother is going to Holland next year he hopes, and is learning Dutch on the web. I've advised him to steer clear of any textual descriptions of pronunciation; they're almost always geared towards Americans. -- Tristan. Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com