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Originally Posted by HarryT
I stand by my statement, Mike. If you know the "rules" of either language, you will know how to pronounce any word from its spelling. The fact that those rules need to be learned, and differ from those of English, does not alter that.
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I'll stand by mine as well
My understanding of phonetic pronunciation is that the same symbol is always pronounced the same way, I may be being a bit overstrict but you shouldn't need any rules, just the pronunciation of each individual symbol.
Welsh is a lot more phonetic if people use the to bach and acute accents and you class double consonants as different symbols giving you a, err, 28,29+? letter alphabet - Some letters have been borrowed so may be more than this now, unless there is a welsh translation for Jive
That covers pretty much everything except w & y, y changes for uh to ee if in the last syllable and w is a mess.