Darren New wrote:
> Vincent Le Chevalier wrote:

>>> BTW, it sounds like "BEH zee ay", according to wikipedia:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_B%C3%A9zier
>>>
>>> no final R sound?
>>>
>> Nope, in French the letters "er" at the end of words are generally 

> 
> So why are the first two sounds different?
> 

In fact they are not really different :-)

I guess they transcribed it in this way because of the neighbouring "i" 
that blends with the last sound a bit. On the other hand I'm not a 
native English speaker so the transcription is not easy for me to 
interpret...



"i" (pronounced as in "fit"). I don't know if that sort of sound is 
common in English, I can't find any good example right now...


and none of the numerous variants in English :-)

-- 
Vincent

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