To me, "ay" is clearly as in "eight" (or "bay", "pay", "lay", etc.), but I can see where that would be misleading. If I had wanted to use IPA notation, it would have been "ej", whereas "aj" is "aisle".Originally Posted by Elthore
The difficult single syllable I was talking about earlier was "eu". English speakers usually render it either as "oo" ("sleuth") or "yoo" (??).
I was definitely not talking about the ει diphthong earlier, although that is also pronounced "ej/ay". I was talking about η/eta which, as I mentioned, in the Erasmian pronunciation, is also "ej/ay" (technically, it should be monophthongized, but that's virtually impossible for native English speakers, so pronouncing it the same as ει is fine).
For me (and others using Erasmian pronunciation), the Canadian "eh" is employed for epsilon, not for eta. Although, Attic pronunciation evidently does use the Canadian "eh" for eta as well.
Cheers.
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