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		stavros on July 21, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What is the significance of the character "j" at t... Is it "eye" or "ey"? I remember "destijl" pronounced "de steyl" and not "de style".

gpvos on July 21, 2024 [–]

It's a sound that does not exactly exist in English, somewhere between the diphtongized a in maze and eye. Quite many dialects kept the old ee pronunciation.

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