RE: Pronunciation of "Unicode"

[Marco Piovanelli]

On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 02:04:11 -0800 (GMT-0800),
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

>I'm glad to see that the initial [j-] is not in discussion! Knowing that
>"Unicode" begins with a consonant, I can finally select the proper definite
>article in Italian: it is thus "lo Unicode", not "l'Unicode".

This is getting way off-topic, but I couldn't resist...

Just because a word begins with a consonant doesn't rule out
the use of an apostrophe.  For instance, "uovo" (Italian for
"egg") is pronounced /'wOvo/ but takes the truncated form
of the article: "l'uovo" /'lwOvo/.

But yes, I say "lo Unicode", not "l'Unicode", so I guess
what all this discussion boils down to is that Italian has
different truncation rules for initial /j/ and /w/.


                                      -- marco