Moss Spelling Dictionary

lyoocobrium, spelled by ear

heard as lyoocobrium

spelled leucobryum

Everything here is a fair phonetic guess and none of it is the spelling. It is leucobryum.

What the ear did

Two Greek letters have been written the English way at once: the eu of leukos as yoo, and the upsilon of bryon as i. The name kept the transliteration it was given in the eighteenth century, and neither half moved.

Sound decision: two sound decisions at once. Said loo-koh-BRY-um.

L-E-U-C-O-B-R-Y-U-M

The full entry for leucobryum covers the name itself.

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