Re: [wEr\ Ar\ ju: fr6m] ?

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])
>
>Major nearby cities: Detroit [dI"t_hr\OIt], Toledo [t_h@"li:doU]
>Other nearby places: Ypsilanti [IpsI"l{~4i], Saline [s@"li:n]
_Some_ folks call it [jIpsI"l{~4i] but what do they know.  Also in your neck
of the woods, Milan, perversely called  ["majl@n].

Well, I'm in Saugatuck ["sQg@tVk], county Allegan ["{lIg@n], Michigan USA as
above.  Nearest "big" city, Grand Rapids-- which is only amusing when radio
announcers slur it to Grand Rabbits.  Then there's beautiful Kalamazoo
["k_h{l@m@"zu:].  Nearby Holland has interesting surrounding villages:
Drenthe (never heard it pronounced! probably ["dr\EnT@] ), Overisel  (ought
to be Overijsel I think) ["ov@r\ajsl=] and The Graafschaap usually
["gr\AfskAp], though an amazing number of people around here get at least
the -sch- right-- ["grAfsxAp].


Those names should look familiar to Irina.  BTW there are 7 _Dryfhout_ in
the Holland phone book.  Any kin, do you suppose?

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