Re: [wEr\ Ar\ ju: fr6m] ? Am I right??

On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 00:11:09 -0800, SuomenkieliMaa <suomenkieli@...>
wrote:

>Originally from
>City: Struthers [s_tra:T\Erz]
>County: Mahoning [mahO:ning] <-- what is "ng"??
>State: Ohio [O:ha:jO:]
>Country: USA [ju:Es"eI]
>Now I live in
>Ward: Suginami [sugi:nami]
>City: Tokyo [tO:kiO:]
>Country: Japan [dZ_pA:n]
>
>Would appreciate corrections (as I'm sure everyone
>knows Japan or Tokyo, at least!)
[O:] is the British "or". From these examples, it looks like you meant the
English long "o" sound, which varies from one dialect to another, but it's
something like [oU] or [ow] in many American dialects. (Actually, I'm
pretty sure the American /o/ isn't fully rounded, but this is a broad
transcription.)

And I assume your "Japan" is [dZ@p{:n]; the schwa vowel is written [@], and
two common ways of writing the "a" in "pan" sound are [&] (Kirshenbaum) and
[{] (SAMPA, X-SAMPA). Some people mix systems and use mostly X-SAMPA with a
few Kirshenbaum substitutions.

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