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

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. :)




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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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