Re: OT: Phonetics (IPA)

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:31:07 +0100 Joe <joe@...> writes:
> > > >Aren't you the same Christophe Grandsire who claimed that
> > > >you've never heard the word "claw" pronounced anything but
> > > >/klaw/?   ;-)
> > > What I said is that I never heard it otherwise than with a
> > > diphtongue, and
> > > I still stand to that claim. I *know* what I've heard, and I'm
> > > not the kind
> > > to mistake a diphtongue for a simple phone.
> > For what it's worth, I pronounce "claw" as [klA:].  If you'd like
> > me
> > to post a recording so you can change the above statement, let me
> > know. :)
> And most Britons that I've met pronounce it [klO:].  I've never
> heard a dipthong there.
-

Would a schwa-offglide pronounciation [klO@] count as a diphthong? :-)


-Stephen (Steg)
 "The Priory, like many European secret societies at odds with the
Church, had considered English the only European *pure* language for
centuries.  Unlike French, Spanish, and Italian, where were rooted in
Latin - *the tongue of the Vatican* - English was linguistically removed
from Rome's propaganda machine, and therefore became a sacred, secret
tongue for those brotherhoods educated enough to learn it."
     ~ _the da vinci code_ by dan brown
 "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that
English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore.  We don't just borrow
words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to
beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
     ~ james d. nicoll

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