Re: representing back unrounded vowels in X-Sampa

David Peterson wrote:

> Joe wrote:
>
> <<[M] and [V], IIRC.  The latter is the sound in RP 'put'[pVt].>>
>
> No...  The [M] is right for a high, back, unrounded vowel, but [V] is
> the symbol for an open-mid back unrounded vowel, which is the "u" in
> "putt", not "put"--that vowel is [U] (unrounded, for me, for which
> there is no single IPA or X-SAMPA symbol).  For a close-mid, back
> unrounded vowel, the symbol is [7] (which is close to V, so I guess it
> makes sense.  Consider the movie with Brad Pitt and Kevin Spacey,
> which was popularly spelled Se7en).
>
Sorry, I wrote the example without thinking.  But surely, a  close-mid
unrounded back vowel would be an unrounded [O].

> -David

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