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arrow-up11.05Karrow-down1imageIt feels wronglemmy.worldThe Picard ManeuverM to memes@lemmy.world • 5 months agomessage-square174fedilinkcross-posted to: nonpolitical_memes@lemmy.ml
minus-square@gentooer@programming.devlinkfedilink4•5 months agoIn Flanders (at least where I’m at) we usually say I grec, but when doing math or reciting the alphabet, we say IJ.
minus-square@MrAlternateTape@lemm.eelinkfedilink2•5 months agoWe say it just like I wrote it, as one word. Although some people use Griekse IJ, which is also two words.
minus-squareZarlinlinkfedilink3•5 months agoUsually same as our compound letter “ij”, similar but not quite how you’d prononuce the word “eye”. Less commonly it’s pronounced as “i-grec” (greek i) or “ypsilon”.
minus-square@Obi@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilink4•5 months agoi-grec (but English sound for “e” just like in Dutch) is the French way as well.
minus-square@aulin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•5 months agoIn Swedish I pronounce y as y. It has its own sound and doesn’t sound like another letter, so it can’t be written as a combination of other letters.
how do you pronounce Y ?
In Flanders (at least where I’m at) we usually say I grec, but when doing math or reciting the alphabet, we say IJ.
Sound like igrek.
it’s two words (“i graeca”)
We say it just like I wrote it, as one word. Although some people use Griekse IJ, which is also two words.
and how would you say xyz ?
XIJZ.
Iks Üpsilon Zett
Usually same as our compound letter “ij”, similar but not quite how you’d prononuce the word “eye”. Less commonly it’s pronounced as “i-grec” (greek i) or “ypsilon”.
i-grec (but English sound for “e” just like in Dutch) is the French way as well.
Üpsilon
In Swedish I pronounce y as y. It has its own sound and doesn’t sound like another letter, so it can’t be written as a combination of other letters.