On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Adam Funk wrote:
> On 2008-08-30, Helmut Richter wrote:
> > Hungarian has the identical letters ö und ü as German for the two
short
> > vowels that are also written in German as ö and ü. Other than in
German,
> > all long vowels are marked with an acute accent in Hungarian. So the
long
> > versions of ö and ü -- and only these -- get two acute accents instead
of
> > dots.
>
> Oops, thanks for the correction.
>
> Everything I know about Hungarian I learned from reading a book about
> Paul [sic] Erdos. <g>
.... who has in his name that long ö with the double acute accents.
Written
in SAMPA <http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/>,
his name is pronounced
["Erd2:S].
--
Helmut Richter
