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I was wondering what it meant. It's too bad English has a different pronunciation for "y", because the specified pronunciation Key-Seh-Lee means something totally different in Finnish (kiisseli, which is a type of dessert, a thick fruit soup that was a common tradition in my family).


Heh, indeed. English doesn't really have the /y/ phoneme at all, so a word like "kysely" is pretty tricky to pronounce for a native English speaker.




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