Re: HIST: The Lady Iris?

Mike -- Thanks for acquainting me with this site, which may very well come in handy. It falls just short of Hungarian, however, which has long umlauted vowels as well as short ones. This site provides the short umlaut (v), but not the long one, which is depicted by two slanted diacritical marks above. I suppose, if one wanted to do so, the "o" with a tilda (u) could be used, and the reader of Hungarian would understand. Unfortunately, there is no corresponding ALT CODE symbol for the long-umlauted "u". What these two long umlauts do (and they are only found on the "o" and the "u") is signify that the vowel sound is prolonged. Thus, the word for apricot is "barack" (pronounced bor-atsk), and the word for peach is (using the tilda) uszibarack, which gives a nice, juicy "ooessi" sound to it. I must confess that certain sounds simply cannot be perfectly transliterated into English, and the latter is one of them. -- Griff

zone 7 in Virginia


----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael D. Greenfield" <mgreenfield@cinci.rr.com>
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 5:15 PM
Subject: Re: [iris] HIST: The Lady Iris?


Griff I am sure your keyboard can supply these " t r u " and many others.

http://www.coloryourprofyle.com/phade/alt.html

Mike Greenfield
Zone 5b
SW Ohio
Region 6
http://home.cinci.rr.com/irisinohio/ Updated Jan 06
----- Original Message ----- From: "jgcrump" <jgcrump@erols.com>
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: [iris] HIST: The Lady Iris?


Anner --- The Hungarian word for iris is noszirom (there's a long umlaut over that first "o" that my keyboard can't supply), which means, literally, "woman flower". It does not translate as "lady iris", but who knows what our earlier irisarians might have done when converting foreign nomenclatures? -- Griff
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