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From: pct@vaxine.UUCP (Pierre Trepagnier)
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Subject: Re: Yet another puzzle
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Date: Tue, 30-Aug-83 14:06:56 EDT
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I have always believed the idea was to indicate that the 2 vowels are to
be pronounced separately, e.g. "noel" as "nowell" rather than "nole".