Re: more English orthography
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
|---|
| Date: | Tuesday, May 16, 2000, 13:53 |
|---|
> >For me, /meri/, /mæri/, /me@ri/; /pIn/, /pen/ - approx RP. Does this
> >polyhomonymity [!] cause problems for such American
> English-speakers with >interpreting IPA?
-
In my pronounciation (NYC) "merry, marry, Mary" are pronounced
approximately as /mEri/, /m&ri/, /me@ri/. My American English problem
with IPA is that my linguistics teacher and books always talked about the
phoneme /A/ (back low unrounded), which doesn't exist in my dialect. I
use /a/.
-Stephen (Steg)
"in the beginning there was no roar."