Re: Derivation of Term Abugida

Dennis wrote:
>
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> >>
> >> OK. One more thing. How do you pronounce abjad and
> >>abugida in English? I say ab'jad and abugi'da.
> >
> > I pronounce them as English words. If you put your stress-mark _after_
> > the stressed syllable, dictionary-wise, then you have them correct; if
> > you put it _before_ the stressed syllable, phonetician-wise, then you're
> > making them very foreign-looking.
>
> I put the stress mark after the stressed syllable, so I had
> it right. I pronounce the vowels as in Spanish. abjad, not
> æbjæd.

Oh. No. Then that's not how I say it.
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