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minus-squareMrAlternateTape@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up33·5 months agoIn Dutch www is faster. Never understood why one would give a letter a name that consists of 2 parts.
minus-squaregentooer@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 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-squareCyberTailor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·5 months agoit’s two words (“i graeca”)
minus-squareMrAlternateTape@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoWe say it just like I wrote it, as one word. Although some people use Griekse IJ, which is also two words.
minus-squareZarlin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 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-squareObi@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 months agoi-grec (but English sound for “e” just like in Dutch) is the French way as well.
minus-squareaulin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 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.
In Dutch www is faster. Never understood why one would give a letter a name that consists of 2 parts.
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 ?
Iks Üpsilon Zett
XIJZ.
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.
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.
Üpsilon