Re: [bpfk] Month Names (WAS: official cmavo form)

[Gleki Arxokuna <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com>]

Okay, but it does bother me. E.g. in russian we pronounce them as [ijul'] and [ijun'] and we have to clearly utter them to make them distinguishable.

2015-01-17 9:58 GMT+03:00 John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>:

Gleki Arxokuna scripsit:

> ke'u, jun- and jul- are too close and can be easily mixed together.

It doesn't bother Germans, who use Juni and Juli, or pre-20C anglophones,
who pronounced July "Julie".

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