English: "Hotmail."
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Squirrel
does anyone actually call it Squirrel? MySquirrel?
I don't work in such places to know. But every time someone calls "Sequel" dumb on the internet, someone brings up Squirrel to remind it could be worse.
Which has five syllables in German.
Itsh (or ish) tee im ill, or e[t]sh tee em ell in arabic.
إتش تي إم إل
إش تي إم إل
Oh thanks! I will update the table with this one!
hoo tee äm äl for finnish.
Didn't bother looking up diacritics.
Ohhhh super cool to see!
Aga Te Eme Eli [Brazilian Portuguese]
"Agá Tê Eme Ele". The last letter is "e", and the diacritics are kind of a big deal.
Note the spelling is the same in the European standard, so that "Brazilian" can be safely removed.
I added your version to the list (I know its the same but with different diacritics) but I find that everyones answers were interesting
Mine is simply orthographical. Some are informally transcribing it to the nearest English equivalent, but pronunciations are different, there are different ways to transcribe it, and even the original spelling is influencing it a bit:
- "Uh-Gah Teh Emm-y-El" implies the first /a/ from "agá" (H) got reduced to [ɐ], the last vowel in "ele" is being elided, and the /e/ in "eme" (M) is being lowered to [ɛ]. I bet the -y- is to represent [ɨ], English lacks the sound so it gets tricky to represent it.
- "Agga Teh Emi Eli" implies the ending /e/'s are actually /i/'s. There's some orthographic interference though - the "e" in "eme" (M) is typically [e] for those folks, but the one in "ele" (L) is [ɛ] instead.
this just reminds me how much I need to learn the IPA...