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Nika Muhl: Comfy In Her Own Skin

DaddyChoc

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2 characteristics of top Uconn players--Confidence and comfortable in their own skin. ONO, CW, DT, Maya, Rene, Stewie, Tuck, Moriah, Danger to name a few. Great company huh?
Renee was oozing of both confidence and comfort from when the whistle blew at the start of “First Night” (afternoon)
 

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Wow!!! You guys are in rare form this week. :eek:
 

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Actually umlaut-u is sort of like ee, but with rounded lips, so you get a bit of both oo and ee.
Anyone else feel compelled to try that?
 

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My wife is German and she does not pronounce it like ee, it's, more like "uew". She also says in German there is no umlaut that has an ee sound.
 

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The u-umlaut (often spelled "Muehl") is pronounced like ee with the lips in a whistling position, so it doesn't come out sounding like ee. (An o-umlaut sound is like a long a in English, again with the lips in a whistling position, so it comes out sounding different from a plain old English long a. As in Goethe.) There really is no equivalent sound in English, and Europeans know that, so they're usually satisfied when most Anglicizers just pronounce it as if there were no umlaut at all ("Muhl," or "Mule").
 

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