On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, SuomenkieliMaa wrote:
> Originally from
> City: Struthers [s_tra:T\Erz]
What's the _ and T\ (or is it \E) supposed to represent?
> County: Mahoning [mahO:ning] <-- what is "ng"??
ng is [N].
> Now I live in
> Ward: Suginami [sugi:nami]
Wouldn't that be [suginami]?
> City: Tokyo [tO:kiO:]
[t_h8ukj8u] for me, but this'll differ from dialect-region to dialect
region. And I think the point of the excercise is to get native
pronunciations.
> Country: Japan [dZ_pA:n]
English's pronunciation would be something more like [dZ@p{:n], I think.
And again, in Japanese?
Tristan