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minus-squareVitoRobles@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoHow do you pronounce it? I say AAAAIEEEEE!
minus-squareAEsheron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoAll* the Old English characters are named with the sound they make, almost all of them starting with that sound. Æ is called Ash, and it makes the ah sound. As English goes, there is of course, one exception.
minus-squareVonReposti@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoDanish guy here who actually has æ in the alphabet. It is pretty much pronounced like ‘e’ in bet.
minus-squareGriffus@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoIn Norway it’s more the ‘a’ in ‘ash’, which also is the English name for the letter
How do you pronounce it?
I say AAAAIEEEEE!
All* the Old English characters are named with the sound they make, almost all of them starting with that sound. Æ is called Ash, and it makes the ah sound.
Danish guy here who actually has æ in the alphabet. It is pretty much pronounced like ‘e’ in bet.
In Norway it’s more the ‘a’ in ‘ash’, which also is the English name for the letter