Sorry if I sounded argumentative by the way, that was not my intent at all—it was an entirely honest question, and I'm really bad at wording things (especially

Sorry if I sounded argumentative by the way, that was not my intent at all—it was an entirely honest question, and I'm really bad at wording things (especially via text).... I do agree that the WP recording of "Dijkstra" sounds more like "dike" than "day". I might've figured out the disconnect. According to this image on Wikipedia[0], the Northern Standard Dutch realization of [ɛi] starts lower than the monophthongal [ɛ] in the same dialect[1]. Just speculation on my part, but maybe in the context of Dutch linguistics, [ɛi] conventionally signifies a wider diphthong than I would've naïvely thought? (If so, I guess this makes me a cautionary tale against directly comparing IPA transcriptions between languages....) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_phonology#/media/File:Dutch_diphthong_chart.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_phonology#/media/File:Du... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_phonology#/media/File:Dutch_monophthongs_chart.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_phonology#/media/File:Du...