Re: OT: YAEPT: karaoke (was: Re: new Klingon spelling)

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 12:49:46PM -0700, Muke Tever wrote:
> I agree. Like I said, I don't expect the accent to be dead-on. I'm
> >more annoyed when people add what I consider a long "e" sound when there
> >is just an "a" and an "o". It's like we don't even look at how the word
> >is spelled when we pronounce it! (Not that we ever do with say, ough,
> >but that's
> >irrelevant...)
>
> It's not a long "e" sound.  It's a long "a" sound (just like often happens
> with originally short vowels before vowels: cf. 'chaos', 'neon', 'ion'),
Not for me.  When I'm speaking English, "karaoke" definitely has
a long "e": ['kEr\i,oUki].