At 10:51 PM 3/18/2004 +1300, Andrew Grebneff wrote:

>By the way, a german acquaintance of mine pronounces it "dye-zel".
>Perhaps Raimund Feussner could comment? Is "dee-zel" incorrect?

In German, as far as I know, the second vowel of a two-vowel set provides
the sound.

Mary

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