Re: 9-phoneme IAL (was Re: Chinese-based IAL?)
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 26, 2001, 12:08 |
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Raymond Brown scripsit:
> Slightly puzzled - Why is the /E/ in /dZEf/ rendered as /u/ in _Supu_ while
> the /E/ in /Edi/ rendered as /i/ in _Iti?
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> Or is 'Geoff' pronounced differently on each side of the Atlantic?
No, it isn't, but perhaps everyone doesn't know that. Geoff = Jeff = /dZEf/.
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