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Well, as a Swedish speaker I will respectfully disagree with your pronunciation. To my ears the the y is not like the e in me, but I can't think of a good English equivalent.

(in fact, the girls name actually sounds like the greek letter "mu" as it's spelled and pronounced in Swedish)

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Where/how might I find a good pronunciation reference that would cover this construct/use?

English equivalents not necessary; I don't mind picking the appropriate tidbit out of a fragment of speech in a video for example.

I could just as easily stare at an IPA pronunciation for a bit too.

I thought finding a source with pronunciation would be easy, but it was surprisingly difficult, and I kinda gave up finding a source appropriate for English speakers.

The name “My” is not unheard of in danish and we also have a word “my”, for very small measures, with the same pronunciation. It should be close enough the the Swedish pronunciation for your purpose.

Here is an entry in a danish dictionary. Click the yellow speaker for pronunciation:

https://ordnet.dk/ddo/ordbog?query=My&tab=for

Thanks very much for taking the time, and for the reference. To my ears that sounds like a subtle cross between classical "e" as in present-tense "read" and "i" as in "pin" or "Linux".

Hrm, now to start saying "MeSQL" and seeing what happens...

The database can also be pronounced MyS-QL ("mys-kul").

It's not right of course.

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