Pronunciation Key:
"ə" as in above, a as in "bat", ah as in "father", ahr as in "park", air as in "hair", aw as in "crawl", ay as in "stay", b as in "bib", ch as in "cherry", d as in "dirt", e as in "leg", ee as in "heat", eer as in "gear", f as in "fat", g as in "gut", h as in "hoe", i as in "pick", ī (long-i, i with a macron diacritic mark over it) as in "bite", j as in "joy", k as in "kite", l as in "lift", m as in "merry", n as in "note", ng as in "song", o as in "dot", oh as in "bone", oi as in "boil", oo as in "boot", oor as in "cure", or as in "for", ow as in "pow", p as in "perfect", r as in "rat", s as in "snake", sh as in "bush", t as in "tap", th as in "math", th as in "brother", u as in "guppie", ur as in "her", uu as in "nook", v as in "value", w as in "work", y as in "yes", z as in "zebra", zh as in "pleasure".
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Word origin and comments: Scots Gaelic "deiseil" ("clockwise"), from Old Irish "dess", Welsh "dehau". Gaelic speakers pronounced the "D" as if it had a bit of a "J" inflection, and the "S" as more of a "zh". You can pronounce it "deisel", (like the engine) if you want.
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