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[kewnya txamew'itan]

Unil though can be lax then?

It looks like Frommer syllabifies this /u.nil/ (accent on the first syllable), so again tense /u/ here.

That's how I've been pronouncing it, I just wanted to know if the lax pronunciation was allowed, it sounds odd though.

[omängum fra'uti]

ulte can certainly be lax though, and to me that "feels" like the more natural way to pronounce it.

[kewnya txamew'itan]

ulte can certainly be lax though, and to me that "feels" like the more natural way to pronounce it.

I realised recently that I'd been doing so even before we got the explicit rules about lax pronunciation.

[wm.annis]

ulte can certainly be lax though, and to me that "feels" like the more natural way to pronounce it.

I realised recently that I'd been doing so even before we got the explicit rules about lax pronunciation.

Native speakers of English will fall into that habit naturally.