Re: [wEr\ Ar\ ju: fr6m] ?
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 7, 2001, 5:42 |
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On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Herman Miller wrote:
> > For those of us who are borrowing place names from what the people who live
> > there call them (which I might still do for Ludiréo, although probably not
> > for Tirèlhat), I thought it might be cool to make a list of phonetic
> > transcriptions of the home towns of Conlang list members. Feel free to
> > include the names of nearby places.
> >
> > City: Ann Arbor [{n"Ar\br\=]
> > County: Washtenaw ["wQSt@nQ:]
> > State: Michigan ["mISIg@n]
> > Country: USA [ju:Es"eI] (a.k.a. America [@"mEr\Ik@], United States
> > [ju"nAI4@d "steIts], US [ju:"Es])
City: Gainesville ['gejnzvIl] or ['dZivIl] ("G'ville"), some say [vl=]
at the end. (Also nicknamed The Swamp, after UF's mascot, the Gators)
County: Alachua [?@'l&tSw@]
State: Florida ['fl_0ord@]
Country: US ['ju:Es], USA [ju'Esej], United States [ju'naj*@d stejts],
America [@'mEr=(@)k_h@] [Er=] is a diphthong
Hometown: Pensacola ['p_hIns@"k_hol@] or [p_hi:'k_howl@] ("P'cola")
Home county: Escambia [?@'sk&mbj@]
Places near G'ville:
Waldo ['wAldow] <-- We were talking about that place a while back, and
someone asked "Where's Waldo?" to which I replied "No one really
knows." It took her a few seconds to get the joke. :-)
Miccanopie (or something, don't know the spelling) ['mIk@"nopi]
Places near P'cola:
Perdido Bay [p_hr='didow bej]
Santa Rosa ['s&n@ "roz@]
Alabama ['?&l@"b&m@] (jocular ['?&b@"l&m@] (Pensacola is about half an
hour from the state border)
Mobile [mow'bil=]
New Orleans [nu('orl@nz] [u(] is meant to denote a very short [u],
barely more than a glide.
No real interesting pronunciations, I suppose.
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