Re: YAEPT: How you pronunce foreign place names

Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:

>Quoting caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>:
>
> Sometimes that final -gne in French is rendered as a simple /n/ as
> in /S{m"pen/.
>What phoneme are you indicating as /e/? If the good ol' "long a"
(as >in SANE), surely the offglide relates to the french palatal.
>If "short e" (RED), your pronunciation may be somewhat unusual -
the >AHD has it as /S&m.pejn/, which also is the pronunciation I've
heard >and picked up.

Yes, you are right. I forgot about the offglide.  However, I don't
understand how the offglide relates to the palatal nasal.  I don't
believe that /e/ exists in English, only /ej/.  At least, I can't
think of any words at the moment that have only /e/.

Charlie
http://www.frath.wiki.net/senjecas

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