Eo (digraph)

Eo is a digraph used in Irish to write the sound /oː/ or occasionally /ɔ/ between a slender and a broad consonant. In the Jyutping romanization of Cantonese, it represents [ɵ], an allophone of oe [œː].

In English "eo" is a rare digraph without a standard pronunciation, representing [ɛ] in feoff, jeopardy, leopard and the given name Geoffrey, [i:] in people, [əʊ] in yeoman and [ju:] in the archaic feodary, while in the originally Gaelic name MacLeod it is pronounced /aʊ/. However, usually it represents two vowels, like [i:ə] in leotard and galleon, [i:əʊ] in stereo and geode, [i:ɒ] in geodesy and neon, and, uniquely, [u:i:] in geoduck.

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