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[–] msfroh@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago (3 children)

For people who don't know Dutch, the pronunciation is kind of like "noiken in de koiken".

[–] thedarkfly@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

That would be the German 'eu' pronounced 'oy'. In Dutch, it's pronounced like 'uh'.

[–] RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

N American English doesn't really have that diphthong though.

[–] oktoberpaard@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

That’s a very rough approximation (more German than Dutch), but I wouldn’t be able to give a better one using just English spelling without additional hints. In IPA it’s øː (with some regional variation).

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