"Paul Rooney" wrote in message
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On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:53:35 +0100, Howard Neil
wrote:

Paul Rooney wrote:

It's not 'muh-' to a northerner.

What is it then, please?

The so-called neutral vowel. Y can be the same as i in 'thin', but
here it's like the -er in 'copper' or the o in 'button'. A bit
like
southern English u.

Called in the business a "schwa", and represented in
pronunciation threads on language newsgroups as
a "@" ... eg 'kop@ for "copper" in British English.

Philip Eden