And how do you want me to tell you? <g>

Nij-me-gen won't cut it for you I guess ;-)

Hmm...

Nij is difficult for non-Dutch speakers, but comes closes to a mix
between ny (as in why) and nay.
-megen is easier, I suppose it sounds exactly like the name Megan,
except the g is pronounced like the typically Dutch g or ch sound. If
you've never heard it, imagine something stuck in your throat that you
want to get out ;-)


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In English terms, as much as possible. :)

And the "j" is silent, then (at least in terms of it not being
pronounced as an English "j". That was my main issue (and my guess, as
well). Okay.

I'm with you. Thanks, Els.

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talking of things Dutch (and seeing as we are already OT and Blinky now
has his answer) ...

saw this today ....

Using a network of radio antennae across the Netherlands and Europe's most
powerful supercomputer,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/clic...ine/4663407.stm

Was an interesting and enlightening read until the end where I found this
....

"It is also possible that weather monitoring will become so localised and
instantaneous that weather forecasting will become "now-casting"."

The concept of "now-casting" a localised weather report struck me as
rather ridiculous in its redundancy, then I rememebered that not everyone
has access to a windows resource.

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** Business as usual

It doesn't matter. Our top brass will ignore you anyway...


(and in case anyone has no idea what I'm on about)

Tanks! Ha! What stupid fellows these Dutch are, there's no tanks
anywhere near Arnhem.....

<g>

Matt

does not come into play.

Also therefore the word IJsselmeer is not written like so Ijsselmeer.
Same goes for our translation of Iceland => IJsland en all the other
ones starting with ij****

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Similar to the Russians having a single letter for "sh" and a single
letter for "ch" and a single letter for "shch"?

ij == &#x133; or ij
IJ == &#x132; or IJ

Nijjmegen, IJsselmeer, IJsland;, etc.

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Nijmegen without the j :)

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CP1251 ISO-8859-5 Unicode

0xD7 0xC7 0x0427 # CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER CHE
0xD8 0xC8 0x0428 # CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHA
0xD9 0xC9 0x0429 # CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHCHA

0xF7 0xE7 0x0447 # CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER CHE
0xF8 0xE8 0x0448 # CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHA
0xF9 0xE9 0x0449 # CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHCHA

I *meant* to delete the 'j'. *Really*, I did. I guess force of habit
(inserting a character entity and deleting the (usually) one (usually)
accented character it's replacing) took over when it shouldn't.

To understand the power of force of habit, work out the following
sum of numbers, saying your answer out loud for each subtotal,
and see if you get the right final answer for the complete total:


1. How much is one thousand plus forty?



(Say your answer out loud.)



2. Plus one thousand?



(Say your answer out loud.)



3. Plus thirty?



(Say your answer out loud.)



4. Plus another thousand?



(Say your answer out loud.)



5. Plus twenty?



(Say your answer out loud.)



6. Plus another thousand?



(Say your answer out loud.)



7. Plus ten?



(Say your answer out loud.)




|
|
| /
|/
V






Was your answer the incorrect value, "five thousand"
or was it the correct value, "four thousand, one hundred"?

I have found that about 95% of the people I have asked that have given the
wrong answer, "five thousand".

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Yup.

Nope.

Of course, I've had a few and didn't have a pencil, paper, slide rule or
abacus next to me :-) Yet I'm still in the majority! Beer ruulz!

leo

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Well, when I see it in a book or on a map, *I* have to do something
with it. :)

OK.

Other than diacritical marks that we don't use, I didn't realize you
had different characters, too.

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Correct

hrmm 5% eh?

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If you look closely at you 'y', you'll see the resemblance.
It's the same letter, only without the dots. Dutch alfabet goes
a b c ... x ij z.
In writing it looks exactly the same as your 'y', bar the dots.

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And to complcate things a little, in a phone book you will find the ij
(and the y) after the x and before the z.

But in a dictionary better look in the i section like so:

a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
ignoreren
i-grec
i.h.b
I.H.S.
I.J.
ij
IJ
ijbokking
ijskegel
....
ijzeroxide
....
ik
ikatten
I.K.B.
j
k
l
m



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