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Don't forget the river IJ, sounds like "eye"
by cbluth 2y ago
Don't forget the river IJ, sounds like "eye"
- stavros 2y agoIs it "eye" or "ey"? I remember "destijl" pronounced "de steyl" and not "de style".
- gpvos 2y agoIt'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.
- Muromec 2y agoAnd then kids in Amsterdam pronounce it now as I anyway
- euroderf 2y agoAnd the windmill-brewery in AMS, Brouwerij 't IJ.
- kbouck 2y agoThere's also an Amsterdam movie theatre across the IJ named "Eye" Film. I(expat)'ve always heard dutch "ij" as an over-annunciated "eye" where the sides of your mouth are a more widely open.