Talk:Gooi

I'm translating the Dutch article on Het Gooi. It's an interesting region and deserves to get a bit of exposure on Wikipeida. Schildewaert (talk) 06:55, 1 April 2008 (UTC) I've finished preparing this article. It was mostly a question of translating, editing and reorganising the material on the Dutch article. Unfortunately, as is so often the case with the articles on the Dutch Wikipedia, the article there was unfootnoted and so the information here is as well. If anyone wishes to support this article with proper footnoting, feel free. Schildewaert (talk) 16:48, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

A dispute has been started by someone who has no user name and has chosen not to discuss the issue openly on the discussion page. The deleter says that the Dutch diphthong -ooi has no English equivalent. The exact comment: "It's impossible for Gooi to rhyme with boy, since -ooi is a diphtongue that does not exist in English."

This user has (without adding a replacement) eliminated my pronunciation suggestion that "Gooi" rhymes with "boy". (For obvious reasons, "goy" is inappropriate as a pronunciation guide.) Unless the deleter wishes to step up and suggest a pronunciation guide for the word "Gooi", I am going to continue to insert this simple one. As a conciliatory gesture to the mystery vandal, however, I'll change "boy" to "roy" (was that the problem?) and add a comment that it only sounds "roughly" the same. Hopefully that will be sufficient to resolve the dispute.

By the way, I'm afraid I disagree with the reasoning here. Any English speaker who hears words like "mooi", "fooi", "Gooi", etc immediately recognises this as rhyming with words like "toy", "boy", etc. This is an article about a Dutch region, not linguistics. Frankly, it seems a little pedantic to me to argue that "Gooi" does not rhyme with "boy". Clearly it does, at least to an English speaker.

I looked in four Dutch dictionaries for a phonetic spelling of "gooi", but none provided one. I invite any reader to listen to how to how the word "mooi" is pronounced: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mooi http://www.sayitindutch.com/sn/news/2007/mooiweertje.m3u

Even if "ooi" has no direct equivalent in English, "oy" is close enough...

Schildewaert (talk) 12:25, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

See also this page, which provides "moy" as the English equivalent of "mooi": http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_561538930/mooi.html

Schildewaert (talk) 12:29, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

And here: http://www.sois.uwm.edu/afrikaans/pronunciation/pronunciation_table_ge.html

Yes, I know it's Afrikaans, not Dutch, but it is close enough.

Schildewaert (talk) 12:35, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

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