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Call me Eild  [message #74211] Wed, 28 March 2018 08:08 Go to next message
timmy

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Location: UK, in Devon
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I am enjoying Call me Eild.  How is our hero to be pronounced?
  1. Eeled?
  2. Aisled
  3. Eeeed?
  4. Eyed?
  5. Something else entirely?

Enquiring minds need to know!



Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
Re: Call me Eild  [message #74214 is a reply to message #74211] Wed, 28 March 2018 10:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
cm is currently offline  cm

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...in my head it's pronounced 'Aild'....but I don't suppose he'd mind too much how you said it...
Re: Call me Eild  [message #74218 is a reply to message #74211] Thu, 29 March 2018 22:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
American_Alex

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Seems to break the rule:
"I before E, except after C....."
so, if the rule; "When 2 vowels go walking, the first one does the talking" applies, it's EE-ild

[Updated on: Thu, 29 March 2018 22:55]




"Able was I ere I saw Elba"
Re: Call me Eild  [message #74220 is a reply to message #74218] Thu, 29 March 2018 23:59 Go to previous messageGo to next message
cm is currently offline  cm

Toe is in the water
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...but 'veil' is pronounced 'vail' not ' veel'....     :)
Re: Call me Eild  [message #74221 is a reply to message #74211] Fri, 30 March 2018 06:57 Go to previous message
William King is currently offline  William King

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Turn the volume up and listen  
https://educalingo.com/fr/dic-en/eild

It's Eild with an I
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