When you sing in a language you don't understand, she observed, "that's not poetry, it's phonetics".
One day it's phonetics, then the next it's whole word.
There is no etymology, phonetics, or suggested pronunciation of the listed terms.
All very fascinating, at least to those of us with degrees in phonetics, but there is no shortage of precedents for the silly umlaut: as the wonderfully detailed Wikipedia entry "metal umlaut" demonstrates, rock bands have long been randomly strewing diacritical dots about their names.
There is no equivalent sound in English phonetics; "ş" is pronounced "sh" in "sheep" (sound /ʃ/); "ţ" is pronounced /ʦ/.
There are other approaches to the syllable in phonetics.
To be honest, there are not many job vacancies for a specialist in forensic phonetics, and I was very lucky to get one in the capital of Germany.
Diphthong, in phonetics, a gliding vowel in the articulation of which there is a continuous transition from one position to another.
From this "pre-Hellenic" stratum, Greek vocabulary made numerous borrowings (kyparissos 'cypress,' asaminthos 'bathing tub,' and so on), and it received from it a number of place-names (e.g., Korinthos), but there is no reason to think that the divergent characters of the Greek dialects (in phonetics and morphology) could be connected with different substrata.
For the record, Harold Somers, a Guardian reader in Manchester, has expertly deconstructed the film's title: "There is absolutely no precedent for the name Bruno to be written with an umlaut, and to do so contravenes a general rule of German phonetics," he explained in a letter we published last week.
