Re: English notation (conclusion?)

At 01:36 PM Friday 6/29/01, you wrote:
>Alright, I have no problem with people claiming that /iN/ is the
>official American pronunciation of <ing> -- that's exactly one of the
>phonetic detail bickerings I feared in my original post.
>
>The fact remains that while the <i> in <ing> may indeed be *phonetically
>realized* as an /i/, it is clearly an allophone of the *phoneme* known
>as "short i", and therefore should be transcribed as <i> rather than
><ee> in any phonemic transliteration.
Agreed; I made the same suggestion. (And if you check back, you'll see I
never actually used or advocated an <eeng> transcription for <ing>.)

Not sure about the "E" in "English" though.  ;)



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