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Re: tSat: Re: 'tEst 'pli:z ig'nOr\

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Thursday, February 1, 2007, 1:32
On 31/01/07, T. A. McLeay <relay@...> wrote:
> > On 2/1/07, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote: > ^^^ does anyone who uses GMail know if I can make that look less > like "the second of January, 2007"?
You mean like it is above? I just changed my GMail language from "English (US)" to "English (UK)".
> I can't get over the /i/ in "ignore". Makes me think Ignor is the > > negated version of Igor... > > IML and IME, "ignore" has an /I/. > > I'm not distinguishing between [i] and [I] as IME, when I hear [i] and > [I] as different, the [I] sounds like either /e/ or /@/ (but the [i] > sounds like a possible unusual /I/). If I don't pronounce "Igor" as > /Aego:/, I pronounce it as /Iigo:/.
Igor definitely starts with an EE sound, not an EYE sound. Have you not *seen* any Frankenstein movies? :) And "ignore" just as definitely has a sound completely unlike any of EE, EH, or UH. :) -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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