Quote Originally Posted by Elthore
ahh, I didnt know you were talking about the diphthong. My fault.

Still though, just writing AY in english is a little misleading, because it could either be pronounced AIsle or EIght. The latter is the proper prononciation of the epsilon iota diphthong.
A key fact that you mentioned earlier, is that this is a single sylable and is a little tricky for an english speaker to blur into one.

For any Canadian readers, its just like: eh?
heheh
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".

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.