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On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 12:18:49PM -0400, Paul Bennett wrote: > On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 17:12:39 +0100, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea@hidden.email> > wrote: > > [snip] > > <i> is pronounced as the semivowel /j/ [snip] before a vowel > [snip] > It suggests to me it was pronounced /j/ (and thus -/ja/ and -/jum/) You snipped too much :). It is pronounced as the semivowel at the beginning of words before a vowel. That's not (1) at the beginning of words, (2) before a vowel; it is /j/ only when it is *both* at the beginning of a word *and* before a vowel. The "before a vowel" is needed so you don't try to pronounce <imbrium> as /jm=br=jUm/ or some such instead of /ImbrIUm/. -Mark