Re: "y" and "r"
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 31, 2001, 22:10 |
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Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> JOOC, then, where do things like the American Heritage Dictionary or the
> World Book Dictionary get their pronunciations? Do they take an
> average of news anchor voices or something? :-p
Well, sometimes if you compare different dictionaries you'll see
different pronunciations given. :-) Plus, the actual phonemes are
often the same, just the realization is different. Like, most dialects
have a distinction between foot and boot, but exactly what those two
vowels are differ.
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