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Yogurt
I always thought the pronunciation of 'yogurt' as yoh-gert was left pondian, and yaw-gert was right-pondian, but I find my Webster's lists only yoh-gert and spells it two different ways: 'yogurt' and 'yoghurt'. But now I'm looking at a container of the stuff from a Canadian source that spells it 'yogourt' on both the English and French sides of the container.
Since it's a Turkish word originally, spelt 'yogurt', I wonder how they pronounce it?
Since it's a Turkish word originally, spelt 'yogurt', I wonder how they pronounce it?
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[nq:1]I always thought the pronunciation of 'yogurt' as yoh-gert was left pondian, and yaw-gert was right-pondian, but I find my ... and French sides of the container. [/nq] 1.
- [nq:1]I always thought the pronunciation of 'yogurt' as yoh-gert was left pondian, and yaw-gert was right-pondian, but I find my ...
- and French sides of the container.
- [/nq] 1.
- Why would a Webster's dictionary list British pronunciations?
- 2.
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[nq:1]I always thought the pronunciation of 'yogurt' as yoh-gert was left pondian, and yaw-gert was right-pondian, but I find my ... and French sides of the container. Since it's a Turkish word originally, spelt 'yogurt', I wonder how they pronounce it?[/nq]
1. Why would a Webster's dictionary list British pronunciations?
2. If you are left-pondian, why do you use the word "spelt"?
1. Why would a Webster's dictionary list British pronunciations?
2. If you are left-pondian, why do you use the word "spelt"?
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[nq:1]I always thought the pronunciation of 'yogurt' as yoh-gert was left pondian, and yaw-gert was right-pondian, but I find my ... and French sides of the container. Since it's a Turkish word originally, spelt 'yogurt', I wonder how they pronounce it?[/nq]
"nes-LEH".
Ross Howard
"nes-LEH".
Ross Howard
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[nq:1]1. Why would a Webster's dictionary list British pronunciations?[/nq]
It does, quite often.
[nq:1]2. If you are left-pondian, why do you use the word "spelt"?[/nq]
It's in my Webster's.
It does, quite often.
[nq:1]2. If you are left-pondian, why do you use the word "spelt"?[/nq]
It's in my Webster's.
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[nq:1]I always thought the pronunciation of 'yogurt' as yoh-gert was left pondian, and yaw-gert was right-pondian, but I find my ... and French sides of the container. Since it's a Turkish word originally, spelt 'yogurt', I wonder how they pronounce it?[/nq]
Since Turkish has only officially used Roman characters for less than a century, how do we know that the decision to adopt "yogurt" as th
Since Turkish has only officially used Roman characters for less than a century, how do we know that the decision to adopt "yogurt" as th
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[nq:2]I always thought the pronunciation of 'yogurt' as yoh-gert was ... word originally, spelt 'yogurt', I wonder how they pronounce it?[/nq]
[nq:1]Since Turkish has only officially used Roman characters for lessthan a century, how do we know that the decision to adopt "yogurt" asthe spelling wasn't based on what the Turks saw of the previous Western attempts to transliterate the Ottoman Turk
[nq:1]Since Turkish has only officially used Roman characters for lessthan a century, how do we know that the decision to adopt "yogurt" asthe spelling wasn't based on what the Turks saw of the previous Western attempts to transliterate the Ottoman Turk
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If it is a Merriam-Webster dictionary, it probably says something like
chiefly British past and past participle of SPELL
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chiefly British past and past participle of SPELL
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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[nq:1]19C Br writers on India seem to have called yogurt "curds": I knew a Sindi my own age who called it that, too.[/nq]
Oy whey.
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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Oy whey.
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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[nq:1]I always thought the pronunciation of 'yogurt' as yoh-gert was left pondian, and yaw-gert was right-pondian, but I find my ... and French sides of the container. Since it's a Turkish word originally, spelt 'yogurt', I wonder how they pronounce it?[/nq]
in modern roamnized turkish yog~urt (the g has has a small crescnet like diacritic on top of it).
/o/ low rounded back vowel (short)
in modern roamnized turkish yog~urt (the g has has a small crescnet like diacritic on top of it).
/o/ low rounded back vowel (short)
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see my other post. in perso-arabic based script it was written with ghayn.
[nq:1]Scots or Welsh -ch- with a g instead of a c. I assume that "yaourt" originated as a French form ... Fr, alongside yoghourt : I think the -gh- almost disappears in some Turkish speech. (Are you here, Dr Gursey?)[/nq]
yes, it becomes just a "glide" in rpaid speech, especailly in urban speech.
[nq:1]Scots or Welsh -ch- with a g instead of a c. I assume that "yaourt" originated as a French form ... Fr, alongside yoghourt : I think the -gh- almost disappears in some Turkish speech. (Are you here, Dr Gursey?)[/nq]
yes, it becomes just a "glide" in rpaid speech, especailly in urban speech.
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[nq:2]19C Br writers on India seem to have called yogurt "curds": I knewa Sindi my own age who called it that, too.[/nq]
[nq:1]Oy whey.[/nq]
...as little Miss Muffet said when she...
Mike.
[nq:1]Oy whey.[/nq]
...as little Miss Muffet said when she...
Mike.
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