Re: USAGE: English vowel transcription [Re: Droppin' D's Revisited]
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 12, 2000, 1:48 |
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Adrian Morgan wrote:
> dirk elzinga wrote, quoting Irina Rempt and respectively myself:
>
> > > > bit [bit]
> > > > beat [bI:t]
> > >
> > > Have I been misunderstanding it all that time?
> >
> > 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'.
Well, maybe it is Down Under, but not Up Over, anyhow.
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