Re: USAGE: English vowel transcription [Re: Droppin' D's Revisited]
| From: | Jeff Jones <jeffsjones@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 12, 2000, 13:53 |
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 08:52:07 +0930, Adrian Morgan
<morg0072@...> wrote:
>dirk elzinga wrote, quoting Irina Rempt and respectively myself:
>
>> > > bit [bit]
>> > > beat [bI:t]
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>> > Have I been misunderstanding it all that time?
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>> Perhaps Adrian confused <i> with <I> ...
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>Picking things up through cumulative examples on this list had convinced
>me that [i] was 'ih' while [I] was 'ee'.
I've always thought that it should be; lower case letters seem more "lax"
to me. And didn't the Romans sometimes use a tall I for /i:/?
Jeff