gadfyl@mosquitoe.net wrote:
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> What have we here but another example of your punctuation and spelling?
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> In vacuum is the second 'u' silent? Or is the first 'u' silent?
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Neither. The first is long, the second short, as in "vac-you-um".
Admittedly, many accents will elide the second "u" resulting in "vac-youm".
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