Steve Cawley
GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)island
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Aleksei � Matiushkin@GreenSkyOverMe does it imply it should be pronounced as /aɪ.ˈwɔː.tər/?
@mudasobwa Good question!
Or that island should be pronounced is-land?
Gorobar@GreenSkyOverMe @mudasobwa is-land ofc, because obviously - it is 😁
Numberz@GreenSkyOverMe Be honest, who else tried to pronounce it as iSwatter on the first read. I can't be the only one 😅
Chake
Andre@GreenSkyOverMe isky isn’t noted
Rob@GreenSkyOverMe isright🤣
berndandeweg@GreenSkyOverMe isair? Issky?
Raffzahnisflatt?
@GreenSkyOverMe what is actually funny: in Arabian the articles are 'el' or 'al'. Only exception: words starting with an 's', then the article will be 'is'. Example: 'is shams', the sun. So, in Dutch people with an Arabic mother tongue will say 'is-sgoed' (goed = good) or 'is-smooi' (mooi = beautiful)...
@berndandeweg Not quite. Half the letters are sun letters, the other half moon letters. Al + a noun starting with a sun letter => l is silent, instead the sun letter is doubled. S is indeed one of the sun letters.
@GreenSkyOverMe thanks for educating me! I was close, but not enough...
2xfo@GreenSkyOverMe
The I in Iswater sounds like an Ē (S is still silent, of course). It's pronounced ēwater, or nowadays, seawater
The I in Iswater sounds like an Ē (S is still silent, of course). It's pronounced ēwater, or nowadays, seawater
jerzik@GreenSkyOverMe I'm not sure still
Edouard Duplessis🩴️ Sand = sea + land
Grumpy Grimnir 
@GreenSkyOverMe Just to spoil the joke, the Old English/German/Norse words that 'island' had a lot more to do with water than you would think. The translation of the old words would be something like "water-land" or "river-land".