Re: genre (was: Woody or tinny?)

Tom Tadfor Little wrote:

> Can someone clue me in...what IPA ASCII system are you folks using?

X-SAMPA, which has the advantage of being standardized by the IPA
people.  Web page at:
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/x-sampa.htm

However, most folks write /&/ for ash, borrowing from Kirshenbaum,
rather than the official /{/.

> what is [Q]?

It's [A] with lip rounding, or *inverted* script "a" in IPA proper.

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